Wet yards and basements, downspouts, French drains, catch basins, dry wells, and culverts, and when a drainage fix needs a permit in New Jersey.
A sump pump may never discharge to the sanitary sewer in New Jersey. The usual right answer is an absorbent surface far enough from the house. A frozen discharge line floods the basement it was meant to protect.
Read more →A dry well that overflows is usually full of silt, too small for the water it gets, or sitting in soil or groundwater that cannot take it. A silted one can often be cleaned out and fitted with a trap so it stays clean. One in the wrong soil cannot be fixed by cleaning.
Read more →Yes, you can bury downspouts in New Jersey, and it is often the cheapest drainage fix there is. The pipe has to fall the whole way and end somewhere the water is allowed to go: daylight lower on your property, a dry well, or the street or storm system if your town allows it. Never the sanitary sewer.
Read more →When a driveway culvert fails in NJ: warning signs, who is responsible on town, county and state roads, HDPE vs metal vs concrete pipe, headwalls and cover.
Read more →It is almost always one of three things in New Jersey, and they have completely different answers. How to tell a leaking water service from a failing septic field from plain groundwater, before anybody digs.
Read more →They do not compete, they collect different water. A catch basin takes surface water you can see; a French drain takes it out of saturated soil. And the question that actually sets the price is not which pipe, it is where the water is allowed to go.
Read more →Usually not from the state, because a typical drain disturbs about 200 square feet against a 5,000 square foot threshold. But four things turn it into permitted work, and whether the pipe touches the house decides more than anything else.
Read more →French drain, curtain drain, footing drain, dry well. What each one actually solves, and why grading and downspouts come first.
Read more →Bare dirt and a hard rain are a bad combination. Here is how we protect finished excavation work, and what you can do to keep it in place until the grass takes over.
Read more →Standing water is never just a puddle. It is water making a decision about your foundation, your lawn, and your wallet. Here is how to read what it is saying.
Read more →Sewer · Water lines and service · Fiber and conduit · HOA and condo · Emergencies
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