Drainage Solutions
Does your property have drainage problems when it rains? Many properties experience rushing water that can remove valuable top soil, mulch, fertilizer products, and even create uneven terrain when it rains.
We can read the grade changes of your property and find a solution that will be functional & beneficial for your landscape.
Let us design a functional system to control your property's rain water runoff!
All of our underground drainage systems include clean out areas, in case your system becomes clogged in the future (it can simply be unclogged like a sewer is unclogged via clean out caps).
There are many ways we can correct drainage issues, and not each solution is practical on every property. Drainage correction can involve one or more of the solutions stated below, and many will include the addition of fill dirt and regrading the problem areas.
Hard Piping Downspouts:
We can hard pipe your house's gutters to a system that will daylight via pop-up emitter or daylight the pipe to a lower elevation when available. This will take much of your property's runoff away from valuable landscape materials, and away from your home!
Down spout drains are the first thing we look at when a customer calls with a drainage problem.
French Drains:
Do you have an area in your yard where water stands after or during a rain storm?
A french drain can carry away much of your property's standing water. We can pipe french drains across a section of your property or through the entire property, and daylight via pop-up emitter or simply day lighting the pipe at a lower elevation.
We use the Ez-Flow French Drain System for ease of installation, reliability, and lower costs of materials and installation.
Dry Creek Beds:
Does your property have rushing torrents of water through a defined area when it pours down rain?
Dry creek beds are not only a functional part of your landscape, but are also ascetically pleasing. They add color and texture to the surrounding landscape as they carry surface water away from valuable landscape materials. Your dry creek bed can have water supplied to it via a pop-up emitter, daylighting a pipe supplied from a french drain, gutter downspouts, or simply constructed in areas where water naturally flows on your property, (or a combination of water sources). Dry creek beds can carry surface water away from valuable areas to less important areas, or transfer water to a rain garden area when desired or when other solutions are not possible (See RAIN GARDENS Below).
Rain Gardens:
Rain garden is an unfamiliar term to many people.
Basically, a rain garden is an area where storm water runoff is collected and used by plant material. The ground in this area is prepared with soil amendments that allow for good drainage, including: rich top soil, sand, peat moss, and finely shred hardwood mulches. This area is a depression dug out, amended with fast draining soils, and densely planted with native plants that don't mind 'getting their feet wet'. Read the wikipedia article for more information and environmental benefits of this system.
