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Remove Old Drainage Pipes and Install New Hybrid System

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Locate and remove the existing 3-inch white drainage pipes, which are likely compromised by root intrusion as indicated by the initial assessment. Install new 6-inch green solid pipes to serve as the main downspout lines. Simultaneously, lay down a separate French drain system using white corrugated pipe. This creates a 'hybrid system' where the hard pipe handles downspout runoff and the French drain collects groundwater. The French drain should be laid within the excavated trench, often wrapped in geotextile fabric. Both the solid downspout pipes and the French drain are routed towards the pre-existing cutout in the storm sewer inlet. The city's regulations allow only one connection point, so the French drain pipe is merged into the solid downspout pipe just before entering the storm sewer inlet. Avoid creating separate perforations into the storm sewer system unless explicitly permitted.

Goal: After excavation, remove the old 3-inch drain tile system. Install a new, larger 6-inch solid pipe for downspout connections and a separate French drain system (corrugated pipe) to collect groundwater, connecting both into the existing storm sewer inlet.

Tools and materials

  • Bobcat 325 Mini-Excavator
  • 6-inch Green Solid Pipe
  • Geotextile Fabric
  • PVC Fittings (T-junctions
  • elbows)
  • White Corrugated Pipe

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[Music] you guys see that white pipe that's the existing drain tile system that was there this is how they had their downspouts hooked up and it was a three inch pipe that they then ran into a four inch pipe and what we're swapping the entire system out is for six inch solid pipe now we're gonna be doing a hybrid system which means we're gonna use solid pipe on all of the downspouts and a french drain to collect groundwater okay so here we go here's our complicated pipe routing but we've got this one coming in this entire series comes down here the hard pipe stays separate and then right here we're actually going to pipe the french drain into the hard pipe which goes immediately right over and into it so this is how we've got this routed we can't create separate perforations through the storm sewer system we're actually using the one that was already there that was part of what the city allowed us to do as part of the permit process so we couldn't puncture in separately otherwise ideally i would have loved to just perforate that right in and keep that completely separate but at some point we couldn't and so this is as close to the exit way as we

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