Rainwater management

[jamiegw]

Image explanation
Long blue line: ditch for rain water
Pink: gutter
Orange: underground pipe
Green circles: rain barrels with the tap open
Green lines: hose
Blue circles: water deposits from the hose

Water must not enter the sewer system and must be deposited on the property or in the ditch. The ditch is not very deep so running underground pipes from the north side to the ditch may not allow a fall.

The hoses are there because I'm afraid that the rain barrels will fill up so quickly and then overflow. I'm assuming it's not good to have overflowing water next to the foundation.

It's not ideal to run a lot of hoses across the floor. What possible solutions are there for such a property? Underground storage?

 

[noseall]

Image explanation
Long blue line: ditch for rain water
Pink: gutter
Orange: underground pipe
Green circles: rain barrels with the tap open
Green lines: hose
Blue circles: water deposits from the hose
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Water must not enter the sewer system and must be deposited on the property or in the ditch. The ditch is not very deep so running underground pipes from the north side to the ditch may not allow a fall.

The hoses are there because I'm afraid that the rain barrels will fill up so quickly and then overflow. I'm assuming it's not good to have overflowing water next to the foundation.

It's not ideal to run a lot of hoses across the floor. What possible solutions are there for such a property? Underground storage?

What are the ground conditions? Clay?

 

[Notch7]

If the ground has reasonable porosity then the normal solution is to run the rainwater from house gutters away from the property in underground pipe to a soakaway

modern soakaways are made from plastic crates, traditionally they were just a pile of rubble

https://www.travisperkins.co.uk/surface-drainage/osma-black-aquacell-eco-1000mm-x-500mm-x-400mm-unit-non-trafficked/p/346979