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Posted by Joseph Meehan on April 13, 2006, 8:50 pm
Zootal wrote:
> The previous owner of my house took all of the rain gutters, ran them
> into a 3" pipe, ran the pipe 10 feet away from the house and dumped
> it into a 3 foot deep hole full of rocks. He put a piece of plastic
> over the rocks, and covered it with dirt. The only way I found it was
> that the plastic was keeping water from draining and the grass above
> it was turning yellow - otherwise I would have to dig up 100' of pipe
> hoping to find where it drained to.
> Is the a good way to drain rain gutters? The water table here is only
> 20 feet down, and if we get a lot of rain my basement starts to take
> on water (I found this out the hard way - my basement was a foot deep
> in water before I noticed lol). Dumping all of ths water 10 feet from
> the house just doesn't seem like a good idea.
It is called a dry well and how well it works and where it should be
placed depends on the local soil conditions. Done right it is the preferred
method, but it is not always done right and in some areas there is no
"right" way of doing it.
--
Joseph Meehan
Dia duit
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> into a 3" pipe, ran the pipe 10 feet away from the house and dumped
> it into a 3 foot deep hole full of rocks. He put a piece of plastic
> over the rocks, and covered it with dirt. The only way I found it was
> that the plastic was keeping water from draining and the grass above
> it was turning yellow - otherwise I would have to dig up 100' of pipe
> hoping to find where it drained to.
> Is the a good way to drain rain gutters? The water table here is only
> 20 feet down, and if we get a lot of rain my basement starts to take
> on water (I found this out the hard way - my basement was a foot deep
> in water before I noticed lol). Dumping all of ths water 10 feet from
> the house just doesn't seem like a good idea.