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Re: [TowerTalk] Water in Conduit...

To: Al Kozakiewicz <akozak@hourglass.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Water in Conduit...
From: Stan Stockton <wa5rtg@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 11:24:44 -0500
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> On Mar 5, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Al Kozakiewicz <akozak@hourglass.com> wrote:
> 
>  If you're going to use any kind of drain pipe, it doesn't matter where the 
> holes are.  On the top, on the bottom, sides, it matters not.  Water seeks 
> it's own level.  If you bury a drain hole riddled pipe so that it is below 
> the water table at any time of year - even shallow during a rainstorm - that 
> pipe will completely fill with a quantity of water that eclipses anything you 
> might get from condensation.

I  always assumed burying conduit with a bed of gravel under it and holes down 
was kinda like a septic line where any accumulation of water from whatever 
cause would likely drain out.  Certainly contrary to what you write, Al, I 
would assume it better to have the holes down as opposed to saying it doesn't 
matter.  Water won't find its own level other than the one created by a solid 4 
inch diameter pipe with holes on top.  It could fill with standing water and be 
there for months while the ground around it had no appreciable water content.

73...Stan, K5GO
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