Frank Burdick’s Log Number: 58
Submitted by: Burdick log
Category (1,2,3): 2
Status: Closed
Estimated date to address: N/A
Q. Why can't the FDD be done out at
the street level rather than in residents' homes? Couldn't a separate storm
line (for FDD water only) be constructed?
[CITY] A.58. For a typical house with a footing drain connected,
the footing drains beneath a house and the sanitary sewer lines in the house
merge at a confluence point beneath the house foundation, and a single sanitary
sewer service lead transports both flows to the sanitary sewer. Therefore,
separation of the footing drain flow from the sanitary flow requires
construction within the basement of the house.
That construction in the house entails the installation of
sump pump and a sump pump discharge line transports the footing drain flows to
a pipe in the street. Often, there is
not a convenient location to connect this sump pump discharge line into the
storm sewer system, so a curb-line drain is installed within the right-of-way
behind the curb to collect the sump pump flow several houses. This curb line drain then connects to the
storm sewer system at the next convenient storm manhole or curb inlet.
Therefore, disconnection of the footing drains entails both construction within
the homes and construction within the right-of-way at the street.
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