AAA Home Drainage

Rain barrels are a “green” way to collect roof water that would otherwise go into the drywell, daylight vent, storm or sanitary sewer or sump well. The roof water can be stored and used for watering the landscape or garden at a later time. The gravity flow nature of this product makes it easy to irrigate without having to pump out of an in ground tank. An overflow system is available to solve the problem I referenced in my former article on rain barrels.
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I am often asked if the homeowner should use rain barrels to capture the roof water runoff that would normally go into the rain drain discharge system. Rain barrels can be a positive home groundwater drainage alternative for roof water from the gutters that would normally flow into the rain drain discharges.
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