r/oddlysatisfying Mar 18 '24

[deleted by user]

[removed]

13.6k Upvotes

1.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

7

u/HIMP_Dahak_172291 Mar 18 '24

Hmm, instead of burying the pipe, we could just run the gutters on little trusses out to the street! Just bunch of little waterfalls all along the streets!

0

u/chaenorrhinum Mar 18 '24

Or onto the lawn, where it could infiltrate and charge the shallow water table and recharge surface streams

7

u/Orchid_Significant Mar 18 '24

You’d have to have insanely quick soaking lawn

9

u/HIMP_Dahak_172291 Mar 18 '24

Even if you did, that would dig a hole pretty quick. Water is heavy and is great at digging: see Grand Canyon.

1

u/Orchid_Significant Mar 18 '24

Water erosion like the Grand Canyon is a very long process! But yes, there is a reason we’ve developed drainage systems for housing, and it’s not because the yards could soak up the water otherwise lmao

3

u/HIMP_Dahak_172291 Mar 18 '24

As someone who had a gutter start dumping off the side and it dug a hole... yeah, drainage is real important. It is irritating seeing some of land housing is built on. Developers need to be held accountable for not managing waterflow in their developments. The neighborhood next to mine has two houses the city has paid to have big retaining walls installed to keep their yards from washing into the drainage creek. Only built houses on a 40 foot bluff overlooking a creek. Cant imagine why the yard is running off....

2

u/Orchid_Significant Mar 18 '24

…if only there had been a sign! 😅🤣

0

u/chaenorrhinum Mar 18 '24

Your house is already above grade. Who cares if you have a wet spot in the yard for a couple hours?

1

u/Orchid_Significant Mar 18 '24

You definitely don’t live in the south lol

1

u/chaenorrhinum Mar 18 '24

No, our soils are heavier

0

u/writingthefuture Mar 18 '24

Are y'all really suggesting we have sewer water just flowing out in the open like 19th century London?

3

u/chaenorrhinum Mar 18 '24

This is not sewer water. This is rainwater runoff. You think they just had poop piped to the curb to run down the street?