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I think a french drain to a pit-type depression that can hold a few hundred gallons of water and drains across hours is the way to go. And the french drain can
by wonder_er 2y ago
I think a french drain to a pit-type depression that can hold a few hundred gallons of water and drains across hours is the way to go.
And the french drain can be simply a slight trench. It doesn't need to be underneath anything. This worked for me and water runoff management around an old house. The lot had a funky grade, and all I wanted to do was get the water away from the structure. A little light pickax/trenching work got me what I needed.
- hinkley 2y agoPermaculture uses very shallow ditches to force water to serpentine across the property. What doesn’t sink in shows up in the greater watershed much later in the precipitation. Not unlike urban rain gardens.
- positr0n 2y ago> that can hold a few hundred gallons of water I was curious with all the talk of drywells in the comments, so I had to calculate it. Here in Texas my roof produces 68 gallons per minute of runoff during a typical heavy thunderstorm. No wonder the drainage ditch gets so full after a storm!