On Mar 8, 5:28*pm, Hugh Leslie Hugh.Leslie.
wrote:
I recently bought a house and was having mains gas installed but when
the gas company dug the trench it filled with water very rapidly. As far
as I can tell they have not hit a water pipe while digging the trench as
my water is fine and I don't believe that anyone else has a pipe through
my garden. This leaves only two possibilities that a pipe has burst
further up the hill and is flowing underground through my garden or it
is a underground river.

The fount of my garden is a bog which I though was just because we had a
wet winter but now realise that this isn't the case and this river is
only about four meters away from the house so I'm a little worried about
the effect on the foundations of the house.

I have the water company coming sometime soon to test the water to see
if it is coming from a mains. But if it is an underground river does any
one have any bright ideas what I can do about it?

There is a short video clip sowing the extent of the problem here
'MVI_1348.MOV - YouTube' (http://tinyurl.com/7lr8e32)

Cheers,

Hugh

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Hugh Leslie

A river I doubt, but there may be a spring further up the hill which
is flowing down and through your garden.
You don't say where you are,
I know that if I dug a trench in many parts of my ground, the water
flowing from the fields above me would give me almost as much as you
are getting.
David @ the wet end of Swansea Bay