It has been raining for three weeks now, and the ground it totally saturated. We do have standing water in places around the subdivision, \u00a0but not for lack of trying to get them to drain off into the storm drains. Some of these pathways are shallow ditches which were recently hand carved into the ground and we will need to make them more permanent in the near future. However, we have to wait for the ground to dry out before we can insert either a concrete trench or a half-pipe so these drain channels do not fill in and become useless.<\/p>\n
We get calls to the Office from homeowners who want their gutters cleaned out because the rain overflows them and their thought is the gutters are blocked by leaves or some other materials.\u00a0In actuality, the 4″ gutters and 3″ x 4″ downspouts simply cannot channel the total volume of rain falling across your roof.<\/p>\n
You can only put so much water into a 4\u2033 gutter system, with 3″ x 4\u2033 downspouts. \u00a0 That\u2019s why the water runs over the sides of the gutters during heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It has been raining for three weeks now, and the ground it totally saturated. We do have standing water in places around the subdivision, \u00a0but not for lack of trying to get them to drain off into the storm drains. Some of these pathways are shallow ditches which were recently hand carved into the ground..<\/p>\n