I’ve read all the “flood in basement” posts in the Forum for awhile and, having experienced many cellar floods myself, have put some time into a system that I think will address my problem BUT I want to hear what the Bstoner community thinks of it.<\/p>\n
I have a 20×45 roof and a cellar with a main house sewer\/drain line BELOW the cellar slab.<\/p>\n
Simple system: 1) Install check valve on main house sewer\/drain line and 2) install professional grade large capacity dry well under rear yard and route roof drains, downspouts and rear patio drain into it.<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve read all the “flood in basement” posts in the Forum for awhile and, having experienced many cellar floods myself, have put some time into a system that I think will address my problem BUT I want to hear what the Bstoner community thinks of it. I have a 20×45 roof and a cellar with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1594,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-15048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellar"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/08\/my-idea-for-fix\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"My Idea for Fixing Water Intrusion in Basement. Thoughts?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/08\/my-idea-for-fix\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/08\/my-idea-for-fix\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Cellar","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mr Joist"}],"creator":["Mr Joist"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2007-08-23T18:34:17Z","datePublished":"2007-08-23T18:34:17Z","dateModified":"2008-07-28T16:27:39Z"},"rendered":"