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Drain tile entry point pic

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It looks like you are 90% on the way to success. You now need to make sure that the area is sloped slightly to collect the water where you have your "catch basin". It is critical to have the water that causes erosion come naturally to your basin and not bypass it and add to the erosion problem. Rather than a mesh or other home made screen to keep out debris, you can buy a plastic catch basin for $30-40 and attach it to your drain pipe. These are strong and keep debris from clogging the drain line.

Thank you! I never knew what you are talking about existed. I just picked up and installed a 9" x 9" basin/grate from Lowes.

The only problem is that I couldn't change the depth of the already buried drain pipe, therefore the catch basin sticks just a bit out of the ground. I built up dirt around it, but I'm afraid that water will just route around the entire thing.

Is there some kind of water diverter barrier available? I'm thinking maybe along the lines of common landscape border barrier...the flexible stuff. But, I would hope for something with more height.

Most of the water comes from a specific area, so if I can channel it to the basin....I'm good to go.

The only other alternative would be to bring in some direct and "berm channel" it.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

Problem solved!

I found that several rock nuckets were underneath the drain pipe right at the start of the run (just about 12" from the newly installed catch basin.

This caused the pipe to left slightly upward, along with the basin.

I dug out the nuggets, and was able to lower the pipe a few inches...thus lower the basin the same amount.

All is fine now.

Thanks for that catch basin tip! :)

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I put a catch basin in near a low spot in my yard, a few years ago. I used the mesh pipe sleeve as a sock in the bottom of the catch basin to be able to lift out any collected debris. I also put in some small rocks around the edge of the catch basin to avoid soil run-off, but not high enough to prevent water flow into the basin.