32x32 chicken run project.

[jjhllnd]

What are the issue or possible problems associated with housing your flock over or near your septic system? Thanks for the help!

 

[jjhllnd]

Might want to talk to your septic company to see if they have a better recommendation but just from a google search I see recommendations that gardens be 10' (possibly 20') from the edge of a drainage field (obviously concern is leaching of contaminated water). So I'd use that as a baseline.

Also would be concerned that if any maintenance needs to be done, the run may need to be dismantled to allow for that, if too close to the drainage field.

Thanks that is helpful.

 

[Araucana Nest]

What are the issue or possible problems associated with housing your flock over or near your septic system? Thanks for the help!

I wanted to place my barn near the drain field and was told by the company doing the work that I didn't want anything compacting the soil over my drain field. So anything that unnecessarily compacts the dirt by adding weight - in my case, the horses walking over it - makes the drain field works less efficiently and makes it fail prematurely. Not to mention what @rosemarythyme said about dismantling it for maintenance.

 

[aart]

the run is over my field line.

Just one 'line'?
Usually a drain field is more than one pipe.

 

[jjhllnd]

Just one 'line'?
Usually a drain field is more than one pipe.

My field line is one 12 inch pipe that is 200 foot long it zig zags in a big square

 

[aart]

My field line is one 12 inch pipe that is 200 foot long it zig zags in a big square

12" pipe!! That's huge!
You didn't happen to take any pics of the pipe lay out before it was covered, did you?
Am really curious about this, did you install it yourself?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

My field line is one 12 inch pipe that is 200 foot long it zig zags in a big square

WOW. Is that a regional thing? or a home-brew? Around here, everyone has moved to the pre-manufactured baffle chambers, assembled to length, but a multiple leg design, with spacing between for replacement when the initial field reaches capacity is the norm, wherever land and structure permits.

These things make QUICK work of the job, saving both labor and materials (gravel and filter cloth). I s that what you were referring to as 12" pipe?

 

[jjhllnd]

WOW. Is that a regional thing? or a home-brew? Around here, everyone has moved to the pre-manufactured baffle chambers, assembled to length, but a multiple leg design, with spacing between for replacement when the initial field reaches capacity is the norm, wherever land and structure permits.

These things make QUICK work of the job, saving both labor and materials (gravel and filter cloth). I s that what you were referring to as 12" pipe?

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No. I have 12 inch field line. Here is a picture of it. I paid a septic company to install it for me because my ground has no much clay in it, the soil doesn’t want to drain properly.

 

[jjhllnd]

WOW. Is that a regional thing? or a home-brew? Around here, everyone has moved to the pre-manufactured baffle chambers, assembled to length, but a multiple leg design, with spacing between for replacement when the initial field reaches capacity is the norm, wherever land and structure permits.

These things make QUICK work of the job, saving both labor and materials (gravel and filter cloth). I s that what you were referring to as 12" pipe?

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I leave in rural south Mississippi so the law and regulations are minimal. So you could call it a cultural or regional thing.

 

[jjhllnd]

12" pipe!! That's huge!
You didn't happen to take any pics of the pipe lay out before it was covered, did you?
Am really curious about this, did you install it yourself?

I didn’t get picture before it was covered but here is the field line used. It is 12 inch plastic corrugated field line. Each ridge on the pipe with covered with small drainage holes.