Driveway drainage installing yourself??

[Pziddy29]

Hey guys so I am in the process of finishing my garage and my next project is replacing the steps to my home,because of poor or lack of drainage. I often have water come near the garage but it normally flows over my driveway and into my steps causing damage especially during winter months.



I have a asphalt driveway. I want to install a channel drain in front of my garage and on the side so I no longer have water overflowing on the side and into the steps of my home. My question is this. Do I need to put the channel drain into concrete if Im not redong my driveway to make sure this lasts?? Also Can I install a channel drain with a curve to catch the overflow on one side?? Or should I just install a channel drain on the one side I have a issue with??



I attached a picture of my survey from when I purchased the house. The area in brown between the house and garage is just mulch and soil.



The areas shaded in blue shows where I get standing water or water over flow. You can see the water come off the driveway and over flow into my steps and walkway,the steps are marked OP on the survey.



The area marked out in red is what I am thinking of as far as the channel drain goes.Also the red portion after the curve closer to the steps I decided to do as in the future I want to widen my driveway to that point all the way to the street.



The lines marked in Yellow and purple are proposed channel to move the water down the hill as my propery is on a hill the front yard is slightly sloped. I am thinking or running the lines this way as it is down hill.



In grey I have a roughly 500 gallon septic tank with ejector pump as the house sits lower than the sewer in the street. So the pump,pumps out the sewage and gray water to the street via the grey line/pipe.





In dark brown or red I have a large maple tree in my front yard.



sorry for the long post and list hoping anyone has some incite.

 

[matt_i]

I have a similar issue and while I didn't start the project yet, my opinion is that the trench needs to be surrounded by concrete for proper bearing so it doesn't sink in.

I am planning to transition to underground PVC Sch 40 -220psi pipe (note this isn't DVW or foam core-walled pipe, its the real deal and costs about $22 per stick. But I wanted that since I often drive trucks and tractors around the property and don't want to crush the pipe. In your case it could be something decorative like a dry riverbed....but I would want landscape fabric to prevent weed growth....but as it fills with organic fines that could change over the years....

Ideally the purple and grey would not interfere with each other if you chose that route.

You do have to be somewhat careful about sending groundwater to a low point...it should not then immediately flow to a neighbor's property which is still lower....

 

[Pziddy29]

The stone wall that leads to my neighbors lawn is roughly a foot to foot and a half tall. I think if I ran the pipe underground to disperse I think I still have roughly 12 to 15feet before it reaches the stone wall and goes into my neighorbrs lawn. My lawn is higher obviously.