Ok, recently moved into a home built in 1995 and it's been a big detective job on lots of items. The original owners were in poor health the last few years and the kids we got the house from just didn't have answers to lots of things.
On this topic, I'm responsible (according to HOA) for a drain that is on my property in a drainage easement. It would have been put in by the developer so could be 25 to 35 years old. This brings water from ditches on both sides of our street down the side of my house and ultimately underground to get it down to the river. It works well as it was all cleaned out over the winter. I took pics a couple of weeks ago on a day when we had 4" rain in 2 hours. The problem is, the underground pipe terminates about 30" underground, leaving a huge and dangerous hole in the yard that is unprotected and holds water even on dry days. I can't believe this was the original design. Did this pipe just sink over the years? It has some rock placed over the top too which is obviously intentional.
So, this is I believe 3 sections of 20' pipe. I'm thinking it need to be dug out, raised with rock underneath so that it exits the slope at some point higher up, horizontally and not in a hole where the water has to be pushed up.
On this topic, I'm responsible (according to HOA) for a drain that is on my property in a drainage easement. It would have been put in by the developer so could be 25 to 35 years old. This brings water from ditches on both sides of our street down the side of my house and ultimately underground to get it down to the river. It works well as it was all cleaned out over the winter. I took pics a couple of weeks ago on a day when we had 4" rain in 2 hours. The problem is, the underground pipe terminates about 30" underground, leaving a huge and dangerous hole in the yard that is unprotected and holds water even on dry days. I can't believe this was the original design. Did this pipe just sink over the years? It has some rock placed over the top too which is obviously intentional.
So, this is I believe 3 sections of 20' pipe. I'm thinking it need to be dug out, raised with rock underneath so that it exits the slope at some point higher up, horizontally and not in a hole where the water has to be pushed up.
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