Drainage Fix Mill Valley Concrete Drainage Contractor

Posted: Jan 30, 2011 |
Cupp Bros. Construction Drainage Contractor from Santa Rosa California. Again going back to the Alto Center of Mill Valley California to do some additional drainage work.

We just finished a substantial project around the eastern end of the Center doing a major drainage issue for a number of stores. The manager was happy. They called us to have a look at several other problems that were there to discover what solutions we can come up with.

The first area was an ATM area in front of US Bank. The Rainwater leader or downspout was clogged since it would drain in to a pipe which was beneath the sidewalk. It runs over to the curb onto the asphalt parking area. The pipe would be clogged with roots over a few years. They attempted to Roto-Rooter it out and that failed to work. Really the only solution was to cut out the entire portion of concrete so wouldn't look like a patch, repair using a brand-new pipe, and reported concrete to match the present 40-year-old concrete sidewalk. This was only difficult mainly because it was an ATM machine that had constant foot traffic and pedestrians going to it. We needed to create a wood platform to ensure that customers could use the ATM, it was only down for one day once we poured the concrete. We were in and out in two days with this one.

The 2nd area was a courtyard. In this courtyard were several stores. The first and main one was a café which had a lot of pedestrian traffic due to people arriving for coffee and breakfast and snacks. The opposite side of the courtyard had a chiropractor and professional offices therefore it didn't have the same visitors. On both ends in this courtyard were roof downspouts. Around the northern side by the café we collected the downspout into a new solid pipe ran an underground so couldn't be seen, and put it up to a disbursement pit. What that meant was that we had several rocks which the water would bubble up through the rock pit and roll out onto the sidewalk and drain out in the street naturally.

The southern end of the courtyard at the chiropractor as well as the cleaners had the identical situation however it was much easier to solve. Understand we put a brand-new solid pipe from the downspout Rainwater leader and sloped it all the way towards the front sidewalk, approximately 100 feet. After that we put it into a bubbler just like the other side so that it would float up through this landscape planter and find its way out to a bunch of 1 inch holes which were left within the planter. After that it simply drizzled out across the sidewalk to the parking lot where it will run to the regular storm drain.

Pretty easy, not real pretty, but everything functions and that's all that mattered on this end. We were happy because the client called us right back from doing a successful project earlier and now we are on their maintenance list to resolve any problems they have got.

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