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Soak Pit

laoisfan · 2007-05-22 13:29:49

hi just wondering what size a soak pit should be ? i.e. length x width x depth ? would 1m x 1m do for length and width ? how deep should they be ? btw this is on 1.5 acre site in the middle of the country side. thanks - laoisfan

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22-05-2007 2:29pm

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laoisfan

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hi

just wondering what size a soak pit should be ? i.e. length x width x depth ?
would 1m x 1m do for length and width ? how deep should they be ?

btw this is on 1.5 acre site in the middle of the country side.

thanks - laoisfan

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#2 22-05-2007 3:42pm
ballystephen

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A metre should be ok but it woudnt hurt to go deeper.
Good luck
Steve

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#3 22-05-2007 3:45pm
laoisfan

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ballystephen wrote:

A metre should be ok but it woudnt hurt to go deeper.
Good luck
Steve

yeah, was thinking 1m x 1m x 1m should be sufficient but will see can i go deeper.

thanks for the reply.

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#4 22-05-2007 8:01pm
hobie

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A wise drainage man once told me to go "Long and narrow" rather than "short and wide" ......

so I dug my soak pit approx 10 mtrs long ..... 1/2 mtr wide and about a mtr deep .... a perforated pipe runs the whole length, surrounded by broken stone ..... plastic sheeting on top of the stone and a foot of earth on top of that ......

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