My sump pump line runs to the end of my property line. The water drains into a common ground in our subdivision. When the pump goes off about 15- 20 gallons of water come out. The grass is always very wet and some areas are muddy and a eye sore. I started digging a hole and want to fill it with pee stone . Just wondering if you have a better suggestion. Please advise. Thanks Nick

Sounds like you have a pretty good solution. I would stick with your plan. Make sure to dig a big enough hole and fill with the pee gravel or stone, to where it can hold upwards of two pump cycles.

Hi all:

I wouldn't recommend pea stone... over time dirt will filter down and slowly fill in the gaps and reduce the ability of the hole to accept/disperse water.

At a minimum, go with large gravel, some large rocks and some broken/whole cinder block and shouldn't have issues down the road.

MARK

Mark is correct. Sorry for the mis information. But I say you can still use the pea stone on the top couple of inches to make it look nice. Lee.

I think you'd be better off installing a dry well. Easy to install drywell kit solves roof runoff problems by taking gutter water away from your leaky basement. Save energy too! (http://www.thenaturalhome.com/drywellinstallation.htm)

Gravel, just plain won't work. There is no place to catch the water.

Where does the water go from where your pump dumps it?

Any gravel filled pit is just going to fill up over a short time. You need to dig several branch lines like tree branches and install a 4" slit, fabric covered drain pipe back filled with gravel and soil. I installed 220' using a Ditch Witch and this almost never fills. A side note, draining to common ground is likely illegal in most subdivisions, it sure is in a HOA.

I like the dry well solution. (see image). Good luck, Tom

Where does the water go from where your pump dumps it?Before I dug the hole, it was draining onto a grass area. The grass area had a slope so the water would trickle down onto a bike path. The homeowners in the sub had a problem with this. Plus the area was always wet and muddy. Quite the eye sore. I dug a hole and was going to fill it with large rocks and pee stone hoping this would solve the problem. What do you think.

Hi all:

I wouldn't recommend pea stone....over time dirt will filter down and slowly fill in the gaps and reduce the ability of the hole to accept/disperse water.

At a minimum, go with large gravel, some large rocks and some broken/whole cinder block and shouldn't have issues down the road.

MARK

Do you think this will work? I already dug the hole. Just waiting for the weather so that I can move onto the next step. I'm getting other ideas, but want to make it as simple as possible. This seems simple. What do you think.

Do the dry well. Did the pea stone. Won't work. Large rocks would work better. The dry well has the best capacity.

Hi Demoisblue:

Speedball's pic. Shows you how to do this best. Here is an article and another great pic. Of how this all works together... ;) :

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The landscape fabric, large rocks, good holes drilled in a basin and all buried in rock (see article) will make for the best job.

At a minimum, use the landscape fabric to keep dirt from filling in the gaps between rocks.

MARK