It’s been a long week here; the wife has been out of town on business, and before she left, we rented a trencher and cut some pretty cool grooves into part of our lawn.
See, the city is re-doing the street, replacing old storm sewer pipes, running new copper water pipes up to each house, etc. As part of this, they’ve also decided to re-do all of the worn-out sidewalks, including ours.
And ever since we bought this house last summer, we’ve noticed that when the sump pump drains water from our basement, the drainage hose still causes the water to pool on our driveway (or worse, in the grass next to the driveway, which due to a weird angle, we drive over with our cars). Because it never drains down to the curb, we believe much of this water makes it way back into the sump, causing the pump to overwork due to recirculating this same drainage water.
So we realized once they started tearing up the street and sidewalks that this would be our chance to really do something about it.
The trencher made some nice deep cuts in the lawn, and we successfully lobbied the city for a PVC tube through the new curb, so we were able to drop in nearly 60 feet of 2″ tubing (with a few 90 and 45 degree couplings), and after I spent last night filling in the trenches (and stealing all the dirt and sod I could find to fill in that driveway-edge basin), we now have a nice way to run all of our sump water directly into the pipe, and down to the street. And with any luck, the sod in the basin will take root, and we won’t have water pooling there any more.
Boring, right? Not what you came for? Nope, me either. But this blog is supposed to be about my life, and that’s what has been going on lately.