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Help with a percolation area

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  • 15-06-2010 4:11pm
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    lollymc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    We have just built a house and we were informed on the planning that we would have to put in a raised percolation area at the front of the house.

    However no one said it was going to be 15 meters by 15 meters and 3ft in height. When you sit in the sitting room all you can see out the window is a large mound of clay. Is there an alternative system that can be installed at the rear of the house. It is a boggy site hence the raised area in the first place but does anyone know of an alternative system please.

    Our drive slopes down into the house.


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    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    HI..
    If you remove the raised percolation area you will no longer be in compliance with the planning regulations set down, it may result in polluted ground water and any other system will probably not work on your site as boggy land tends to waterlog hence no percolation...

    Stick with it, spend the money having someone in to plant it up rather than re-locate it....


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    stackerman
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    bbam has it spot on.
    If its in your grant of planning, you have little choice but to comply. Your only other option would be to submit a change to the CC. Boggy ground will not work for percolation. You could look at a reed bed system which might work, but I have no info on that.
    Enjoy your new house ;)


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    pops
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    We had a similar dilemma, which we solved by planting wildflowers and flag-irises in the percolation area, while we hedged it all around with a variety of evergreen, native and flowering shrubs. It will take a couple of years for it to grow, but it will look natural and I think the extra shrubs/bushes will help absorb any excess moisture.


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    #5
    lollymc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭lollymc


    Thank you all so much for your replies, i have a landscape architect coming to have a look to see if anything can be done, appreciate your input :)


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