Worth knowing
Drainage decides how long a road lasts
A lot of rural driveways are built wrong — not enough base, no crown, and
nowhere for the water to go. Water running down a road instead of off it will take the
surface with it, every spring, until somebody fixes the grade and puts a culvert where it
belongs.
Water around the house matters too.
Drain fields fail from what goes into them and from what runs onto them — years of
overloading, age, roots, ground compacted by vehicles parked on top, and roof or surface
runoff aimed at the field. Runoff can absolutely be the cause, and of that list it's the
easiest one to avoid. Shaping the pad while we're already on site costs almost
nothing.