Reel Repair by Alan Tani

I realize I shouldn't complain. At least 2 people on here wish their garage problems were that small.

Yup.

Tell ya what though, first storm since Ian and even though all the inlets are closed off becaise I want to sod around them, the "bubbler" down by the street is popped up with water flowing from the roof drain. Gonna call it proof of concept

So I'm revisiting this. It's been 3 years. The drain works but it has to be unclogged from time to time. It just fills up with dirt. I blame the 4" pipe not being wide enough for large storm events, and the nature of the bubbler at the outfall meaning it doesn't flow at all unless it's a large event. In most cases it's just underground storage for about 10CF of water. So I put in another on the other side. I went with straight pipe instead of corrugated and it's all pitched downward. There's only about 10" of fall but it sure seems to work. I dug a shallow swale to the sidewalk which is about a foot lower than the outfall. It only takes about a gallon of water before I start seeing it flow out the bottom end. Trench is 80' total the top 50' is 4" pipe the lower 30' downstream of the last inlet is 6" pipe. Now I just gotta bury it back.

We've had some serious storms this weekend. I wish it was already installed. I rented a 24" trencher because it has a wider blade. Still not wide enough. But it was self powered and a lot of fun. Other than the sprinkler pipe I found the hard way. I thought it was about 3' away from where I found it.

I saw the old pics and just kind of shrugged when I saw the corrugated piping. I replaced a bunch as a landscape contractor. The heavy blue pipe is a bit of overkill, but you won't have problems there.

A neighbor came over with his excavator this morning and cut the soil about 6" deep and 2 feet wide. About 75 feet along the bottom of my middle slope. Every spring the hill leaks for a few weeks along there.

I just came in from cutting a swale the whole length to dump the surface water into the creek. Used a flat shovel, a pick and a 32" grading rake. Soaked my tee shirt even though it's only 68 degrees outside. Still getting the work done at almost 71 years old. (Two weeks or so).

Good work Jasonalmostouttaproblems.