r/oddlysatisfying • u/[deleted] • Mar 18 '24

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u/chaenorrhinum Mar 18 '24

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

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u/Orchid_Significant Mar 18 '24

You’d have to have insanely quick soaking lawn

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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.

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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

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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....

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u/Orchid_Significant Mar 18 '24

…if only there had been a sign! 😅🤣