November to June quite the improvement

Hi All;
Spent all of last summer, until late October working out of state.
Of course while I was unavailable, the water system acted up.
Serious plugging, that repeated blowing out had little effect on. Required a complete replacement of the last 30' of a 2200' system.  (over 300' of vertical drop)
Temperatures in November were not the best for this job, with snow and below freezing nights and mornings, but I had little choice. I got it done and working without to much grief.
I hauled much sand home to backfill rather than use the partially frozen clumps of clay that my yard consists of!
Each day I hand backfilled with sand and what little dirt was mixed in with the clay.
I ended up with a pile of "extra" clay... oh about 5' wide x 10' long and 2.5' thick!
I covered it over with plastic for the rest of the winter.

This spring that whole section of yard was a sticky clay mess!  You didn't want to walk on it or you would gain several inches in height from the clay sticking to your shoe bottoms.
I tossed out bunches of lawn seed and hoped for the best. Eventually it worked and we got some lawn coming in.
About 6 weeks ago I had the neighbor come over with a front end loader and carefully remove my extra clay.
This of course produced another sticky clay spot in the yard...  The dog and I seem to track muddy footprints all over the house.... nobody else of course...
I planted more of the same sun and shade seed mix.
This is what it looks like now!  
Quite the improvement!

Job well done. What ends well....  On to the next challenge. <g>

That was plastic pipe, right?    1"?   What caused the original blockage?



Regards,
Rufus

Hey Rufus;
Thanks! Plenty of things to move on to!
Blockage was buildup in the metal connectors.
Original black pipe (hard to see) was 1.5" poly pipe. Uses internal connectors.
The white pipe is 2" pvc with external connectors.

Thanks for the info. I did not realize that poly pipe had internal metal connectors.  2" pvc is definitely a step up. The stuff actually is very appropriate in many circumstance. When I started plumbing in the 80s, we all turned our noses up at the "consumer grade" pvc drain pipe. Until we had to repipe the sinks at a photography lab! Somebody didn't think clearly and they replaced the original galvanized drain with nice neat copper DWV - and it lasted about 12 months before the developing chemicals ate the bottom out!  PVC  to the rescue.

Cheers,
Rufus