Techniques we like to use:
What we do is manage the water on your property. This means identifying where the water is coming from, and deciding where to send it so that it becomes a resource instead of a liability.
Downspout DrainsGetting water away from your house is very important, so we commonly add downspout drains with downspout filters on them. The drains are buried pipes that take water away from the foundation, and bring it to a rain garden or some other place where it can be useful. Downspout filters are important because they stop leaves and other debris from getting into your pipes and clogging them up. 80% of the time that we see downspout drains without filters during site evaluations, they are clogged.
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French DrainsFrench drains are a good way of capturing slow seeps of water into pipes, and draining soggy areas in yards. However, they are vastly over-prescribed, undersized, and often installed in areas where they create more damage than they resolve. On our jobs, we often cover existing french drains with an impermeable layer of clay, because often times positive drainage away from a structure is a better solution. Our technicians know when and where to install french drains so that they work for the long term.
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Yard Drains/Catch BasinsYard drains, or catch basins, are useful to get standing water from soggy spots in your landscape and in hardscapes into a pipe and draining to a place where the water becomes a resource instead of a liability, such as a rain garden or a pond.
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Rain GardensRain gardens are concave areas in your yard where you direct runoff water from other areas of the yard. In a rain garden, water has time to infiltrate into the soil, where it stores thousands of gallons of water and makes that water available to trees and bushes though out the year. Rain gardens are often planted with appropriate pollinator support plants and native meadow plants, and they become rich, sustainable landscape features.
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Rain Harvesting CisternsCisterns are great ways to store water that can later be used for landscape irrigation or for annual vegetable gardens, for establishing young landscape plants, for other outdoor uses such as filling ponds, washing cars, or water fights. Rain water can also be used for indoor uses, such is indoor non-potable for flushing toilets and washing laundry, or indoor potable for all other indoor water uses.
Asheville Drainage + Rain Harvesting has installed over 100 cisterns and tank systems in Georgia and North Carolina in the past 10 years. C |
Minor Grading WorkFor drainage purposes, often times all that is necessary is some minor grading work to reshape flows of water on land, filling low spots, taking down high spots, and ensuring that there is positive drainage away from structures. We often phase in installations, trying less expensive options first, such as grading, before attempting much more costly interventions such as total foundation drains, and most of the time, no further work is needed.
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