Not sure if this is the correct place for this… I have an underground pipe in my garden. The 1st part (marked with white pen) is lead and seems to follow up to the street (behind me in the photo). The garden is on a decline so it actually goes under the steps in the side passage of the semidetached house… or so it seems. It’s also lead which makes me think it was originally built with the house in the 30’s (wonder able to say that in 6 years time!) – it’s not clear at all where this goes as the steps are about 1.5m high. The pipe in the garden is about 25cm under the soil.
The lead part joins onto a plastic part (marked with red), which flows down the to the bottom of the garden. The problem is, that section of my garden is now heavily water logged. I mean it was wet to the side of the flowerbed before but now the grass is wet and sogginess is spreading to the centre of the garden, it’s about 1/3, across.
The photo looks like this as I dug up to aerate the soil and lay some new grass and discovered the pipe. It’s solid with no visible holes.
The rain run off from the path behind is not substantial to say it’s gushing so I don’t count much excess water coming from that, and as I mentioned, the issue was never this bad and mostly associated with the flower bed to the side of the fence, not the grass.
Does anyone know what this pipe is?
I phoned the water company, the council and checked the deeds. The water company said it could be a supply pipe to another road, it’s about 8 inches in diameter.
I didn’t dig up the entire garden to see where it ends but that area is water logged all the way down for about 10m, so that can’t be a coincidence.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance 🙂
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