It Never Rains but.....

It's been scorchingly hot the past few days; into the 30's, so we (or at least the gardener) have been praying for rain. We were therefore pleased to get up this morning to find that there had been a really heavy downpour in the night. However ...... mid morning JJ came to see us, fearful that there was a problem with our Septic Tank. The water in his well had all gone cloudy! He does have a 'thing' about his well which is outside his barn the other side of the wall I built last spring. He instantly thought that one of the pipes from our tank had broken and was leaking effluent into his well.

After a lot of peering and umming, I finally went to investigate the end of the pipe from the gullies outside of our front doors. At the moment the pipe ends in a hole dug in the ground at the back of the barn, and the intention was to take it on down to the veg patch. But you know about intentions! After due consideration , we (JJ and I) decided that, following the recent storms, when half the hillside seems to have been washed down, with a lot of it disappearing into our gullies, the pipe must be blocked and leaking out somewhere, ending up in JJ's well.

So, out came the digger again.

We cleared a section of trench and then I allowed water from the hosepipe to flush out the silt and debris from the pipe until the water ran clear. Hopefully that will have cured the problem; we'll just have to wait to see if JJ's water in the well clears.

The next job will be to buy some lengths of pipe to take the water away down the hill. Yet another job which seems to have appeared out of nowhere and jumped straight to the top of the list!!