Taking Care of Fields in Wet Weather
During seasons of heavy rains and storms, it can be difficult to properly care for your field as it can often become flooded. Using field drainage supplies helps to reduce the effects of this and keep your grounds healthy.
Why is Field Drainage Needed?
When creating a drainage system to protect your field, it is important to understand what you are actually protecting your field from. Too much rain water negatively impacts the structural integrity of the ground. This creates loss first that is difficult to walk in as it is no longer solid. This can lead to people and animals walking on the field tripping and injuring themselves which is very dangerous. As well as this, any plants growing in these grounds are in danger. For wild fields where grass and other plants are left to grow naturally, their roots can drown from too much water and they will die. This negatively impacts the local environment and has a knock on effect for surrounding wildlife. If the field is being used for agriculture and growing crops. Many of the crops will die and the ones that have not died will be much lower quality. This reduces their market value which results in an overall loss of revenue for farmers. This also results in increased prices for local people when selling the crops.
Drainage Supplies
So how do you efficiently use the supplies that are available to you to prevent these negative effects from happening? Firstly, you need a collection system. The water in the fields will naturally run to the lowest points in the ground so this is where you need to place gullies. Gullies have openings on the top that allow rain water to fall inside and sit on the surface of the field with a pipe coming out the bottom to connect to the rest of your drainage system. The pipes themselves will make up the majority of your drainage system. They are angled to allow gravity to naturally pull the water away from the field and are made from durable materials that don’t wear quickly due to water. This makes them a great investment as they will not need to be repaired often or replaced after only a few years. As there will be several gullies placed throughout your field, and therefore several streams of weather entering your drainage system, you will also need junctions. These are similar to pipes and help to direct water to the right place, however, they are designed to bring two different streams of water together into one larger stream. This brings all of the water in your system into one place which makes it much easier to direct away from the field.
Product Suppliers
When fitting your drainage system or if you decide that your system needs an upgrade, then the best way to find the supplies you need is through a supplier. An experienced supplier will have both basic supplies that can fit into most systems as well as more technical products for specialised systems that need to manage large amounts of rainfall. Suppliers will be able to assess your field and recommend products that would work best for your situation. They should also have lots of information on their website related to field drainage and the products you need to manage it efficiently.
Conclusion
If you find that the health of your field often suffers after heavy rainfall and it takes a long time for rain to soak into the ground, leaving large puddles and swampy terrain, it might be time to look into drainage supplies. By looking at the Knowles Drainage website, you can find all of the information you need related to this topic as well as a range of products for you to browse.