Dry Well Repair | Nassau County, Long Island, NY

Dry Well Repair | Nassau County, Long Island, NY

DRY WELL PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
NASSAU COUNTY, LONG ISLAND, NY | ALL STORM DRAINS INC.

Dry wells in Nassau County are older structures typically. They are built closer together because a lot of storm drain systems are older Nassau. Nassau County was developed before other eastern parts of Long Island were. Although there has been plenty of new development with modern dry wells in the County of Nassau. Old dry wells can be made of block like old cesspools. Some are in fact cesspools that were converted to drywells after the Nassau County connected to sewers in most areas.

Dry wells are drainage structures that leach rain water from parking lots, roads, buildings, roof water, bridges, or a house roof or driveway into the ground throughout the Nassau County, Long Island area. Home dry wells can also be utilized to leach laundry water into the ground. They can consist of precast concrete ring or multiple rings depending on the capacity needed or the depth which is needed to reach good sand for sufficient drainage. These precast rings are made in different diameters that also effect drainage capacity. On top of the precast ring or rings is a top which can be a dome or a slab with a smaller access hole in it. That hole is covered with either a steel manhole cover and brought to grade for access or a concrete cover that is buried below ground. If the cover is below ground, it will eventually need to be accessed at some point in it's life for maintenance.

Dry wells in Nassau County are very similar to a cesspool with two key differences. One difference is obviously what waste water it's being used to leach. The second difference is in the way they are maintained. Dry wells receive garbage, bottles, foliage, sand, salt, car parts, animals, concrete, bricks, and anything that rain water can flush into a drainage system. This can build thick layers of garbage on the bottom which can quickly backup the dry well and start flooding issues. Dry wells require a specific type of industrial vacuum truck to service these drainage systems in Nassau County.

These trucks can suck up concrete blocks, bricks, dry dirt, heavy mud a few feet thick. They are very expensive and complicated machines that require a lot of maintenance and knowledge to keep them running. Where cesspools require a different type of custom vacuum truck to service cesspool and septic systems as well as grease traps. These trucks suck water, floating scum, and sludge from the bottom. Some cesspool trucks are capable of reversing their pump to blow air in a utilize the process called aeration.

Parking lots throughout Nassau County, Long Island can have one dry well or a thousand dry wells depending on the catchment area. Catchment area is the square footage of a roof, parking lot, roadway, parking garage that the dry wells were installed to serve. There are formulas we use to design drainage systems that consider catchment area and rainfall.

In Nassau County, Long Island dry wells are a very common way for industry, commercial business, and municipalities to manage rain water runoff usually in combination with a system of catch basins. Some roadways, buildings, apartment complexes, home developments in Nassau County utilize sumps to retain then leach very large amounts of water. Sumps can be used in conjunction with drywells, catch basins, and other types of drainage systems all over Nassau County, Long Island, NY.

Please contact All Storm Drains Inc. today for all your drywell repairs or service needs in Nassau County, Long Island, New York.
Email: George@AllStormDrains.com
Phone: 516.825.1010   Fax: 631.475.2898