

These first picture shows Jeanne (no, she doesn't do all of the work, someone has to take the pictures, and usually that's me!) digging a hole in solid clay to form a basement for the yurt. We dug a drainage ditch to daylight down the hill, dug a drainage trench around the perimeter, one in the bottom, installed perforated flexible pipe in the ditches to form a french drain system, covered the pipes with a layer of gravel, then backfilled the ditch down the hill, leaving the end of the pipe sticking out with wire mesh over the end to keep the mice out.
This all proved to work well. When the snow melted this spring, water came running out of that pipe every day, and our basement while not necessarily totally dry, at least didn't flood.
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