What to do with all the rain and your house floods

[dsjsws]

With spring rains – my house has flooded twice in the last several weeks and would have flooded twice on Monday without my new system being almost finished.

Here is my partial solution so it will not happen again.

It includes:

• 3,000 pounds of river rock
• a French drain
• 4 rain barrels (they hold 220 gallons of water collectively) so now it can rain hard for about an hour before they start to overflow. (One fills up in about 15 minutes in a hard rain I found out)
• The barrels can hook up to a hose which can directly water the yard, or I can connect to my soaker hose watering system and water automatically. (In a pinch, the hose can also get rid of water quickly by sending it to the street’s drain when the barrels are over flowing. I learned that little tidbit on Monday when I only had one barrel in place and it was overflowing .)

The plumbing to connect the barrels to each other is hidden behind the barrels.

I pray it works well in the future. I hate water in my house.

Donna

[SecretAgent]

is the water coming in from the roof or from the actual property flooding?

[dsjsws]

Originally Posted by SecretAgent

is the water coming in from the roof or from the actual property flooding?

Well, both to be exact.

This takes care of my roof's water.

I have been adding a series of concrete retaining walls to take care of the waterfall coming down the hill from my neighbor's pool deck.

Donna

dsjsws added 192 Minutes and 48 Seconds later...Double Post Merged Below

Home improvement projects never end.
Now I have to trim the trees off my roof so that their debris doesn't stop up my new rain collection system.

Donna