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April 23, 2020 by Chuck Green

How Do I Improve My Yard’s Drainage?

With the spring showers approaching, it is now more important than ever to make sure that your yard’s drainage system is ready. Ensuring your yard is draining correctly and eliminating wet, flooded spots will help you to maintain healthy grass and a pristine looking yard.

CGreen’s Landscape Management has been helping Dallas, TX homeowners improve their yard’s drainage for over 30 years. Here are a few tips and tricks that we know will help improve your property’s drainage system this season!

Extending Gutter Downspouts

This is the simplest option for improving your yard’s drainage. Having your gutters drain into the landscaping, garden, or flowerbed creates a place for your water to pool. This can drown plants in the garden, and the standing water can attract mosquitoes. The best, simplest solution is to extend drainage downspouts to a lower part of your yard.

french-drainInstall a French Drain

A French drain is a system that helps disperse water over a large area. French drains require significantly more work than extending a gutter downspout, but they are extremely effective. The concept is that by burying a perforated pipe under gravel and grass, water will drain into the pipe and will be evenly distributed throughout gravel. These are most effective when put into low areas.

Installing a French drain can be done by the homeowner, but for the best results it is often best left to the experts. CGreens offers professional yard drainage installation in Highland Park, North Dallas, Frisco, and throughout the Metroplex. Contact us for a free estimate today.

Rain Gardens

If you have a really tricky part of your yard that does not want to drain no matter what you try. Turning it into a rain garden is a really effective way to make the best of the situation. The trick is to turn this spot into an area that can handle the additional water without damaging your yard. Since this is a “garden,” you need to plant native plants that are able to survive in conditions with a lot of water. These plants are also effective for holding the soil together.

Creeks

While this is another complicated solution, it is definitely the best looking! Creating a pristine stone creek in your yard to help drain water away from a low spot or to a rain garden is an effective drainage technique. It also is a great way to spruce up your yard a bit!

Attractive and functional landscape design is a CGreens specialty.

Underground Drain Pipe

Lastly, if you have a particularly troublesome spot in your yard that is uphill, installing an underground drainage pipe that leads to a lower area is an effective drainage strategy. You will need to dig a trench spanning from the area that water is pooling down to an area that you selected as the outlet. At the troublesome spot, you’ll need to places a catch basin connected into a solid PVC pipe. The buried pipe will keep that spot from flooding, and takes less management than a french drain.

Hopefully, this list helped give you some ideas if your yard’s drainage is not quite where it needs to be. There are definitely solutions that you would be able to install yourself, but for some of the more complex ones, you are already in the right place!

We have been helping homeowners improve drainage in their yards since 1980. On top of being able to install all the things above, we are also able to install sump pumps, grates & drain water catch basements, and erosion control measures. At CGreen Landscape Management, our professional team specializes in drainage and erosion control, serving the Dallas, TX area. For more information about our landscape services, contact us to schedule a service NOW!

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Erosion Control

CGreens uses a variety of ways to hold soil and keep it from washing away. Installing a retaining wall is an option that would be appropriate. There are many types of materials we use for the wall, from railroad ties, landscape timbers, concrete stones that look reasonably natural to many varieties and colors of native stone, which would be a beautiful addition to a landscape.

Of course, plant material such as ground cover or grass is excellent as an erosion control mechanism if you have the correct amount of sun and water. You may have a temporary need during construction that we can help with by utilizing special cloths explicitly designed for erosion control.

Re-grading your landscape to create a proper slope for runoff water and installing foundation protections such as wall sealant.

Adding a root barrier is also an option to help keep trees and large plant life from drawing moisture away from the soil which leads to erosion near the foundation of your home.

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Sump Pumps

An Installation of a Sump Pump or Pits would be done by CGreens in situations where there is not enough slope to discharge to a Surface Drain. Also, French Drains are typically deeper and will need a pump to discharge water up and out to an area away from the collection points.

The pumps that we install are commercial grade and can pump debris up to 1 ½” in diameter. We install check valves, unions, and alarms when necessary.

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Surface & French Drains

Installation of surface drains, which are catch basin with a grate over the top of them at ground level, allows surface water to flow into them. When installing this system, CGreens makes sure to use a solid pipe that runs to a lower area to discharge, such as the street or storm drains.

CGreens installs French Drains to collect subsurface water, not surface water! French Drains are a trench in the ground, lined with a GeoTech cloth that allows water but not soil to penetrate. A solid PVC pipe that has holes is placed at 5 & 7 O’Clock positions, then the trench is filled with gravel, and the cloth is folded over at ground level.

Creating this hole creates a barrier to stop water and serve as protection and a sponge to draw water away from an area that needs to be kept dry. When we install a French Drain to prevent water from penetrating under a pier and beam foundation, the drain will be at least 6 inches below the perimeter beam.

Special note* CGreens uses only SDR 35 solid, smooth bore PVC pipe. It is the same thickness as Schedule 40 pipe but is not used for pressure. Heck, you can almost drive over it! We do NOT use the black, flexible ADS rolls of pipe as it will crush very easy even when backfilling the trench!

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Surface and Subsurface Landscape and Hardscape Drainage

You need an effective system for removing stormwater and draining water before it can cause further damage. We are experts at all kinds of yard drainage systems that can move water from your property quickly and effectively.

At CGreens we can customize water drainage systems for every landscape and situation that are designed specifically to fit your landscape. We offer systems for surface water drainage, subsurface water drainage, and water retention/holding containers.

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Grates and Drain Water Catch Basins

CGreens uses grates to catch water, and our filter systems can minimize the quantity of debris entering the system. For some grating projects, A foundation engineer may be the unbiased professional that you need. We have worked with many engineers since 1980 and can be your guide for a strong voice & properly graded yard and foundation.