"Hugh Leslie" wrote in message
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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

Wont be a problem with a modern house, the damp coursing will have no
problem coping, nor will effect that part of your foundations below ground.

Until that test is done, you don't know what you are dealing with, if its a
leaking pipe then when its fixed the problem will go away, if its natural
its been there as long as the house so just make a feature of it. We have an
underground river that passes right under our house, deeper than yours) and
5 natural springs in the kitchen floor, small ones but quite noticeable when
taking the old tiles up! I just tiled them back over using water proof
adhesive.

Mostly this sort of work of draining land etc is just hard graft, not very
technical so don't let anyone part you from a lot of money to sort it


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