Shared soakaway and tree removal?

Lbuk

Hi,

I have permission to chop down a tree in my garden (conservation area) and I share a soakaway with my next door neighbour.

He commented on the application that we share a soakaway (he has to comment on everything!) but google seems to suggest that tree growth could disturb the soakaway but nothing about tree removal.

I suppose if we went crazy hacking the roots up we might cause damage but assuming we remove the stump vertically and just the large protruding roots - how great is the risk?

Thanks

Head_The_Ball

Is your shared soakaway a simple rubble filled large hole in the ground or is it a preformed or prefabricated chamber?

daveyjp

The tree is also removing water which isn't going into the soakaway. Once it has gone what happens to all the water?

I_have_spoken

To avoid a horrid mess (literally and figuratively) I'd suggest getting in a company to run CCTV down the pipes in the leach-field to look for intrusive root growth and leaks.

Depending the type of tree, you may get ground 'heave' when it's gone which will disturb the workings of the soakaway.

Check the insurance of the contractors too!

Rotor

I think I would take the tree down and not worry. What's it going to do ? Crack it and make the soakaway leak?
Worst it could do is break the pipe leading into the soakaway but even then it would have to break the pipe AND block water access
to the soakaway and if that's going to happen it will already have happened and removing the tree will either help or make no difference.




QUOTE=daveyjp;71786291]The tree is also removing water which isn't going into the soakaway. Once it has gone what happens to all the water?[/QUOTE]

If the soakaway was properly installed it should be able to cope with the volume of water flowing to it in relation to the porosity of the soil.
Trees are also dormant in winter and not using water at just the time we have the highest rainfall