Underground Spring

[Semper Paratus]

Hey guys and gals.
Mrs. P and I recently, in the last 6 months, moved into our new country estate. We have had a continuous wet spot in the lawn of the house lot 40-50' away and a foot or so lower than the foundation. My initial thoughts were that it was a low spot at the confluence of some gutter down spouts. Recently, like i the past three weeks, we added a puppy to the family and the wet spot got to be a bit of a problem. She would go play in the mud most every time we were out. So I decided to "cure the problem" by hand working a shallow trench to the wood line, 60 or 70 feet away. the trench eliminated the bulk of the wet spot but after a week and a half of no appreciable rain there was still water flowing. After several days I probed the area with 4' long fiberglass driveway reflector and it went into the ground 3'+ with no more force than a thumb and forefinger. The water continued to flow cool and clear. This wet area is several feet from the well line trench.
I want to solve this problem. Would digging down 2' in diameter 3' deep in the vicinity of the seep, installing a well point with 2' pvc trenched in to a low point and then back filling with washed 57 rock and top dressing with a foot or soil of soil solve this problem? or is the fix a self cleaning Koi pond? Thoughts or recommendations.

 

[Eaglesfate]

Some folks would do some very dubious deeds to get such a blessing.

 

[workinonit]

If it is a spring and not a broken water line I sure wish I had that problem. If it were mine I would locate it and get a pipe in the ground for a flowing well. You need to do some close checking and make sure you don't have a broken water line. Springs and flowing wells are like unicorns these days.

 

[ArlyA]

Gee, 1/2 our yard is seasonal springs. Good thing is they dry up as summer comes along. The prevuis owners did buried some PVC in the area but it gets overwhelmed at times. Our yard is 1/3 snow now.

 

[Semper Paratus]

Well folks--it turns out that it was a damaged water
line. I had initially eliminated the waterline based on the locating drawings provided by the builder. Apparently, the well guy ran the line where he wanted rather than as designed, a difference of 20 or so feet. I figured it out when I threw the pump breaker and in a few minutes the water stopped. I called the builder who called the well guy and in a few hours he rolled up with a truck and mini. They excavated by hand to find the line and then the mini went to work. ends up it 4+' underground and the line had been damaged by an impact to the sight pipe 4" pvc used for the inspector to check burial depth. Apparently someone hit the sight pipe with a piece of equipment and it crimped the line, which in service fatigued and failed. 6 or 8' of new line was spliced in and now all is well. You folks were right. Thanks. This has been several weeks since fixed.