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I live outside of Cincinnati and most of our land here consists of some topsoil and horrible, horrible clay. This, combined with the fact I live near nothing resembling a hill of any sort makes my yard a nice swampy mess. The previous owners of this place "tried" to make it drain a bit better but they either didn't care all that much or just couldn't muster the willpower to do something more than dig a 3"wx12"d trench. Needless to say it fills with leaves and is generally useless. We have a very large ditch in our front yard for drainage, its roughly 3 - 4 feet deep and that is where I will get my drop from. My plan is to re-route part of the current trench as I will be hopefully building a garage this year and it would run through the foundation. I will be taking this trench down to the main drainage ditch, overall elevation change should be about 3 -4 feet deep. I plan on keeping a 12" wide trench and lining the bottom with commercial grade landscape fabric, 1-2" of gravel, then 4" drain tile (either wrapped with a "sock" or the fabric) and then several more inches of gravel then the topsoil. This should provide us with roughly 2 feet of drop over about 250 feet. We are pretty much doing this by hand because I have willing friends and I am cheap. Anyone have advice on a better method or a flaw in my plan?
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Jan 21, 2015 21:21
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Sup Cincinnati drainage problem bro  I have the same soil, but the hills too. This is one part helpful, 2 parts unhelpful, creating little streams of the neighborhood's drainage along each side of my house in anything but the lightest rain. One thing you might want to add, especially if that ditch tends to fill in heavy rain, is a check valve. Without one, you may end up channeling water toward your house if that ditch ever gets deep enough.
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May 2, 2015 20:36
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If you're going to put a check valve outdoors, then you'd better think up a good way to service it. If anything gets in that valve's seal, then it won't be able to prevent backflow. That and I don't know if you'd be able to create enough flow pressure to open the valve in the first place.
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May 3, 2015 00:17
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