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    Max driveway grade

    The grade is to steep. If you agree to this constrruction plan, you will regret it for as long as you live there. As for resale, the house will sell when you drop the price enough that the trade-off for such an inconvienience is worth it to the next buyer. Be prepared for a lower than average...
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    Residential Leach Field has Wet-Spot

    Thanks for the advice, but I have already gotten plenty the county sewage code officer..(none of which provided any specific recommendations or guidance, except to try and scare me...He wouldnt even recommend a contractor who has done good work (that he has inspected) in the past....I wish I...
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    Residential Leach Field has Wet-Spot

    Does anyone know what types of invetigation procedures and repairs are typically performed on a drain-field when there is a 10' diameter(septic) wet-spot in the middle of a large 100x100 leach-field (5 drain-pipes, each 100' long @ 20' c-c). The soils are approx 7-10 feet deep, & free draining...
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    Pipe Settlement during construction - Advise Wanted

    Contractor is trenching approx 8 ft thru random fill, placing bedding, 3 ft re-concrete pipe, and compacted granular backfill (#8). Invert of pipe is critical. We have now encountered some very soft soil (STP=woh) along the trench alignment below the random fill at the bottom of the trench...
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    tips needed for new gravel driveway

    You will have to determine how well drained and how compact your base soils are. If your soils are sandy, you probably dont need the fabric. If they are fine grained (clay or residual soils) and have been suitably compacted by the road grading contractor and use of the driveway by daily...
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    French Drain

    I agreee with boo1, as I installed 3 pipes in my french drain. It works great if you are a do-it-yourselfer, but no engineering firm would recommend it in a formal design. The benefits are that the multiple pipes are much cheaper than the gravel, it significantly reduced the quantity of gravel...
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    Shear Strength Correlations

    Can anyone direct me to reference materials which may have correlations to estimate shear strength from atterburg limit results ? I have been told these correlations exist, but I cannot find them. This data is for concept design only, so I am using available info and any correlations I can...
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