I had a problem develop over the winter where I began having water running across one of my driveways. The water was comming from a small overgrown pen by the drive which hasn't been used in several years. I have a drainage ditch which flows under one driveway and then runs behind a building in an open ditch through this pen and into a pond in the pen before exiting through another culvert under another drive to one of our pastures and our big pond. Here are some pix of what I found when I went investigating today and the temporary repairs I made.
I was about half way done before it occured to me that I should be taking pictures. LOL
The first two pictures are of the driveway area and the amount of water running across it.
The next two are forward and behind me in the pen when I realized that I should get pix.
The next four pix are of the end of the culvert where the water enters the pen as I got the ditch dug out.
The final pic is looking along the back of the building at the culvert after I was done. Same view as the third pic.
Probably around 12-14". All I had at the ranch was a square point shovel. Broke the round point a while back and haven't replaced it yet. Any way, I went down a full spade depth and then half again by the time I got to the culvert. Started at about an inch at the end where I started. There's an old dying bridge over the ditch which is burried under a bunch of broad leaf bamboo about five feet from the pond. Going to have to work on that area, but not today.
My eventual desire is to culvert this area and remove the ditch. To accomplish what I really want (long term), I'll need to install about 170 feet of culvert and cross two driveways followed by about 200 feet of new ditch.
The red line in this pic represents the new ditch path. Yellow is current path. Blue is current ponds and ditches/culverts to remain. The area circled in yellow is where the water was comming across the drive. The area circled in red is another area which is wet and has no ditch currently which is one reason to reroute the waterway. The other reason is to get it away from the left building as the ditch is about 10 feet from the end of the building and the bottom of the ditch is about 2 feet higher than the floor of the building. Any time the culvert clogs it overflows its bank and floods the building.
