Retaining Wall Needed to Slow Water Runoff
A retaining wall of some sort is needed to slow water runoff. As you can see there is a lot of shale exposed and this is due to quickly moving water during rainstorms. No grass will grow because of this and the ground looks bad in general. The plan is to build a retaining wall by extending the railroad ties on the left over to the right (within the photo). It seems like some drainage will still be needed at the base of the wall. So, my question is how should this wall be constructed? Should a specific gravel be used for drainage? Should a drain hose (i.e., a perforated hose) be placed at the base? Also, should the railroad ties be connected to one another in some fashion? So far from the research it seem it would be best to continue using railroad ties of the same size and build up the wall from there one layer at a time. The wall would be backfilled with some drainage option at the bottom and then soil above that. Any help is appreciated! submitted by /u/appyah [link] [comments]
A retaining wall of some sort is needed to slow water runoff. As you can see there is a lot of shale exposed and this is due to quickly moving water during rainstorms. No grass will grow because of this and the ground looks bad in general. The plan is to build a retaining wall by extending the railroad ties on the left over to the right (within the photo). It seems like some drainage will still be needed at the base of the wall.
So, my question is how should this wall be constructed? Should a specific gravel be used for drainage? Should a drain hose (i.e., a perforated hose) be placed at the base? Also, should the railroad ties be connected to one another in some fashion?
So far from the research it seem it would be best to continue using railroad ties of the same size and build up the wall from there one layer at a time. The wall would be backfilled with some drainage option at the bottom and then soil above that.
Any help is appreciated!
[link] [comments]
