I have a back yard that slopes from side to side. One neighbor's yard is on the high side and I get a good amount of water that runs down into my back yard. Both surface water and subsurface water that leaches through the soil for a while after a hard rain. I'm thinking about installing an open drain between our yards that would catch the surface water that runs down the hill. I'm thinking the trench would be about 18" deep and built like a typical french drain. a couple inches of drainage rock on the bottom, the corrugated piping and then fill the trench with drainage rock, adding some of the larger egg rock for the last couple of inches on the top to make it look more decorative instead of looking like a drainage trench.
Here's the question....usually I would line the trench with landscape fabric, but I want the subsurface water to leach into the trench also. Would you guys recommend lining the trench, or opt more toward just filling the trench with rock and socking the pipe. OR....no lining for the trench or pipe either one? With all of the water that comes through that soil I have to believe that if there is no fabric anywhere that a lot of silt would migrate through the rocks and clog the pipe.
Thanks.
Here's the question....usually I would line the trench with landscape fabric, but I want the subsurface water to leach into the trench also. Would you guys recommend lining the trench, or opt more toward just filling the trench with rock and socking the pipe. OR....no lining for the trench or pipe either one? With all of the water that comes through that soil I have to believe that if there is no fabric anywhere that a lot of silt would migrate through the rocks and clog the pipe.
Thanks.
