Source: Drew C. Wilson, WILSON TIMES, 4/18/20


New drain tile had been in the ground only a few minutes before water was pouring out. It was a clear sign that several hundred yards of drainage pipeline buried 4 feet deep in the ground would perform as designed, drying up perpetually wet spots in a field. “This is marginal land that stays wet,” said Josh Pate, director of the Wilson County Soil and Water Conservation District. “It is a hydric soil type, and we are looking to be able to put in the crop rotations sweet potatoes and tobacco, which don’t do very well in wet soils.”

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