Ditches can be landscaped as swales that look like creek beds or small meadows.
Drainage creek for gutters.
You can turn landscaping for water drainage solutions into features that enhance your yard and protect natural waterways.
Was considering a french drain where our gutter creates a pond next to our house during storms but this is a much prettier solution.
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These are often ornamental in design and can add an attractive landscape feature to your yard.
Making a dry creek bed drainage canal for downspouts.
It s a form of hardscaping a non organic landscape design element.
There are many things you can do to improve the effectiveness of your gutters.
Some drainage problems can result in erosion areas in your yard where excessive downspout water emerges from daylights or pipe openings.
You can solve drainage problems and create an attractive landscape feature at the same time with a dry creek bed.
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With the right landscaping the creek bed will look good even when it s dry.
Inspect clear out your gutters regularly.
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Finally if water is being retained in addition to the ground because of subsurface rock which will not permit the water to drain heavier equipment will be asked to excavate the drainage trenches.
A dry creek bed is an effective drainage solution but it can also be an attractive landscape feature that needs very little maintenance.
Making a dry creek bed drainage canal for downspouts.
Gutter water can flow into rain gardens that provide a habitat for butterflies and birds.
Best of all you get to decide exactly how it looks designing the path of the creek and choosing and placing all of the boulders and stones.
A creek bed like this can channel water away from a low spot or direct runoff into a rain garden or dry well.
Dig a trench even though you ve moved water away from the house your work isn t done.
I ll give it a try thanks for the inspiration.
To prevent erosion make a rock bed around the end of the tube.
Where the tube passes by the downspout from the gutter we installed a y fitting and drained the roof water from the gutter system directly into the main drainage line.
Bricks and stone dry creek bed projects by dave.
Also check and repair berms and ditches as necessary.
Twice in the fall and before spring.