Practicable means to acheive 230.53 compliance

[Fred B]

This seems it migh be a seasonal issue when spring water table higher. But also someone doing other excavation or frost heave might have damaged the conduit as HO claims they've never seen issue before. Looking at soil conditions good likelyhood of the later with the amount of large fractured stone and by HO report no sand bed was brought in for the conduit, they just used excavations for backfill.

 

[electrofelon]

Most high water table locations around here you do not want to have a basement, or if you do you better at least have a really good drainage/pumping system to keep water away from the walls.

I've been around places where you can't dig a trench without placing whatever you are burying right behind the excavation process as you go, you only have minutes at the most and it fills in by itself with "quicksand" in the deeper portions of your trench.

Yeah I would never build a house with a basement where the footing couldn't be drained and daylighted . Pretty common around here to have properly drained and daylighted foundation, but go 20 feet away and the ground/,trench will be saturated with water, so any conduits with leaky joints will have a stream running thru them.