Water line thoughts

[LazyWP]

Long before my time, they trenched in a water line to my sheep pens. In the process, they got down into "ground water" and couldn't get the water line in deep enough so things don't freeze up. Other then the first year I was here, the line has froze solid.
I think the water that they hit is just a vein, maybe 100 feet wide. I have dug enough post holes in that area to come to that conclusion.
My question is... is there anything that I can do about it to keep things from freezing up? I have put hay over where I believe the water line is, I have hauled about 2 feet of dirt over it. The problem appears to me is that the whole water vein freezes up, along with my pipe line.

 

[Silver]

short of digging in a new line deeper than the old, if you keep it running all the time you'd at least have a fighting chance.

 

[George]

If you are sure where it is freezing and it's only about 100' long get a backhoe and put it deep enough that it won't freeze even if the vein does - - - a 100 foot trench with a 12" bucket should take less than an hour unless you have big rock to deal with.

I just put one in for a neighbor thru a swamp and had to carry the backhoe thru with the front and rear buckets about 6' to 8' at a time and still crossed the swamp and put the line at about 7' deep in a couple of hours.

The customer was sure I had created a backhoe grave yard as with the stabilizers down the mud was still trying to come in the door. Looked a mess for the first couple of weeks but is grassed back in now and by spring you will never know I was there.