Another Stormwater Drainage Problem - New Homeowner's Flooded Yard mitigated with a Dry Well

This nice young family just moved into the area and purchased this beautiful home. Two weeks after closing and moving in we got a two inch rainfall. The seller told them that they had fixed the yard water problems with grading and installing three FloWells. The 3 flowells couldn't handle this amount of rainfall. After measuring he had over a thousand gallons of standing water. We mitigated this issue by installing an appropriately sized chambered dry well - seepage trench - soak pit - recharge system using infiltrator chambers and new yard grading. They previously had standing water for a week, or more. Now the water is gone within 24 hrs.

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Chapters
00:00 Quick preview
00:22 Dawn's description of the project and setting up
04:38 Why we use chambers
05:56 Excavating the soak trench & setting up the laser
13:28 Soil survey and vertical drains
15:41 Removing a failed FloWell system
18:43 Trenching and vertical drains
22:21 Stone, filter fabric & chambers
31:45 Layout for downspouts & catch basin
33:14 How we quickly slope the laser
35:45 Installing the downspouts and catch basin
42:10 Closing up the dry well, back filling and yard grading
43:21 Cleaning up and cutting down inlet risers
46:48 Dawn's walk through

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