Timeline for Lot grading, water percolation & french drain on the property line along the fence..What is a correct drainage for this property?
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| Apr 13, 2016 at 19:43 | comment | added | wallyk | I suspect someone here is confusing sanitary sewer with storm sewer. | |
| Sep 18, 2015 at 16:01 | comment | added | Dano0430 | Why don't you call the City and ask about nearby storm sewer? I get these calls all the time. Trust me the City wants you to connect to storm. Typically water is designed to drain away from structures toward property lines and then toward a sewer/creek or some other channel that will carry to an ocean eventually. Do you have a sump pump in the basement? | |
| Jul 12, 2015 at 3:32 | comment | added | Craig Tullis | Hi @user2059078, I think I actually did answer all three of your questions, albeit in more of a narrative than as 3 direct responses to the 3 questions. Yes, you're downhill and the water is going to move toward your house. The French drain along the fence will move water away from the fence--as long as you have somewhere to drain it to (maybe the drain-field idea in the back?), etc. It's all variable depending on the composition and saturation of your soil. It TOTALLY sucks that the city won't let you pipe runoff into the storm sewer. Why is there a storm sewer, in that case? ;-) | |
| Jul 12, 2015 at 3:20 | comment | added | MiniMe | Thanks for the details but these are more like comments, none of them answers the three questions that I asked. I live in Toronto and the City does not want us to send rain water into the sewer anymore. In my case this SUCKS because I have nowhere to send it At the South side there is another property that backs mine. The street is North of my house in the picture. | |
| Jul 11, 2015 at 21:22 | history | answered | Craig Tullis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |