1st Lady - Lyrics - Weeping Tile
A weeping tile is a porous pipe, also called a drain or perimeter tile, corrugated drain pipe, or "ag pipe" in Australian English, used for underground water collection or discharge. Named in the time period when terracotta tiles were typical for drain pipes, the modern material is typically plastic pipe with small slits or weep holes in it. It is buried surrounded by aggregate larger than the slits. The aggregate rocks prevent excessive soil from falling through the slits into the weeping tile. With this arrangement, water in the surrounding soil above the weeping tile flows into the weeping tile. The weeping tile then drains into a solid pipe leading to a discharge or directly into a sump then removed by a sump pump.
