Dry Well Education & Maintenance - AllStormDrains.com
All You Need to Know About Dry Wells If storm water races from your yard and across the next lawn over after every heavy rain washing out a flowerbed and cutting a ditch along the way you could probably expect a knock on the door from one very disgruntled neighbor. But neighbor issues would be the least of your problems. With uncontrolled storm water, you can expect erosion and localized flooding time and time again. Dry wells are just one means by which business owners can collect and control storm water runoff. When Dry Wells Can Help Imagine a large commercial paved parking lot. Before the parking lot was there, falling rain soaked evenly into the soil. Now when it rains, the water can no longer drain, so it runs to the lowest area on the parking lot. Before long, water pools, and if the developer did not make provisions to divert the water in a controlled manner it will run over the curb and erode the soil beyond. The same principle is at work in your own yar