More Drainage Work Coming Up-

February looks to be busy with more drainage/water related projects. I will be doing the final phase of the Briarlake job-soil replacement around the foundation per the recommendation of the client's engineering firm. Just down the street in the same area, I will be installing a French Drain and installing a rain barrel with some creek stone. In Dunwoody I will be installing a fairly elaborate French Drain and pathway for a new client that will involve about 200' of piping. We had some more flooding rain in the area just last night- a local independent remote weather station was reporting a rain rate of almost 6" per hour at around 4:30 yesterday..that is heavy rain. I hope it didn't cause anyone problems...I'm thankful for the work the rains have brought, but as a landscape designer/contractor I would much rather be creating things than repairing things!

Briarlake Phase 2- Completed

Warming weather really helped to speed up the completion of this project last Thursday and especially Friday. Amazing how much better things go when all the soil isn't frozen!

Briarlake Drainage Improvements

This was another bad drainage/wet basement project. Based on my design and suggestions from soil engineers hired by the client, a fairly extensive drainage system and dry creek bad was installed. A steep hill with it's base only 20' from the back of the house on the basement end, combined with downspout water and surface runoff was congregating large amounts of rainwater in one small area-and it was finding it's way into the basement. A main 6" line with 3 drop inlets was installed parallel to the house-a french drain was installed within a problem area and piped into the main line along with the downspouts. The grade was altered for better water flow and the collection area/swale was covered with large egg rock.

So far so good-I spoke with my client today. 2" of rain in 6 hours the day after I finished and no water in the basement! Will be doing more drainage work on the side of the house after the first of the year.