Remember that the unique thing about all that water coming off your roof is you can harvest this water and use it to irrigate your yard. There are water best management practices (BMP’s) that can be incorporated into your property such as rain gardens. Rain gardens have become popular in recent years. This is where you have a little divot or indentation installed in the ground on your property. It has to be in the proper location. A little bit away from the edges of the home, in your yard, where you can collect rainwater coming off the roof and discharging from the downspouts or from surface water intercept drains. The rain garden will collect the water and hold it temporarily. The water will drain straight into the ground. The rain garden can be an ornamental, decorative-type thing also where you have certain types of plants, which are suitable for a rain garden-type application.
You need to do some preliminary work before you install the rain garden to make sure it is a proper location for a rain garden. You also need to determine the soil characteristics of where the rain garden will be located. It should be adequately draining soil. You can do a soil percolation test to make sure water drains down through the soil fast’ enough to where the water is not going to sit or pond for an extended period of time. You do not want water sitting in your rain garden attracting mosquitoes. vermin and other things. You want it to drain down relatively quickly and into the ground to reduce the risk of surpassing its capacity and discharging water to often off the lot defeating its purpose or overflowing.
Importantly, with rain gardens, you are always going to have an emergency escape mechanism. If you get heavy torrential rain surpassing the capacity of the rain garden, it will be able to discharge water thru the emergency escape mechanism incorporated into it. It will drain that water away that is starting to fill up the rain garden. The overflow relief mechanism is often connected to a drain tile, a drainage swale, or some other drain pathway to allow water to drain away from the edges of your home and towards the city-designated drainage easements or storm drains. Surface water runoff should always drain off your property. into a designated storm drain system. Thus, alleviating the risk for flooding and water damage on the property. Water should never be allowed to intentionally drain onto any adjacent private properties.
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