Help Water Is Running Into My Pool

[reedwesd]

I live at the end of a cul-de-sac and have a fairly steep driveway. When it rains really hard the water tends to run down my driveway and into my concrete patio where my pool is bringing everything with it. My drive way runs beside my house and makes an L shape around the back to the garage. My Pool is at the bottom of the hill. I was thinking about making some kind of bump out of concrete or digging a drain ditch on a 45 degree angle to send the water directly into the yard. I am pretty handy but have not messed with concrete so I don’t know about making a bump in the drive way and I have no clue what all will be involved in putting a drain in. Anyone have any ideas. I will try to get some pictures you guys can see what I am talking about.

 

[ZeroSignal]

 

[cyamaha2007]

I would get a pre cast trench train. They can make them what ever length you want and you can drive on them. You would just saw cut where you want it and dig a trench to make it flush with the existing concrete. Then just run pipe from it to a place in the yard away from the pool.

 

[reedwesd]

I would get a pre cast trench train. They can make them what ever length you want and you can drive on them. You would just saw cut where you want it and dig a trench to make it flush with the existing concrete. Then just run pipe from it to a place in the yard away from the pool.

That is what I was thinking but do you cut the concrete to the size of the drain or do you have to install it and then concrete around it.

I know I will get some pic.

 

[Charles (in GA)]

You can buy styrofoam molds and set in place then pour the concrete, and pull the styro out. You can also get the precast ones, make the trench oversize and set and pour outside the precast, making it stronger (you gotta drive over it). Several ways. Spend some time on the net doing searches and looking at web sites.

Charles

 

[cowboyjosh]

Maybe your just taking on groundwater being so close to Lake Cumberland? Have they got that dam patched up yet, or is she still leakin?

 

[Wingnut65]

Trench drain would be first suggestion followed closely by a concrete curb to divert the water elsewhere. Depends really what the existing conditions are.

Post the pix when you can.

 

[dirttracker18]

The next question is do you have a suitable place to divert the water too? You may not want ot just send it into the yard. Make sure you consider the consequences of where the water ends up before you send it there. You would not want to start a new problem.

A trench drain into a dry well might work.

 

[Red05GT]

We've retrofitted trench drains into many problem sites with great success in
controlling excess water inflow. You can get them that will support anything from
light vehicular traffic all the way up to ones capable of supporting semi traffic.

 

[dankicksass]

This problem sounds expensive... everything should slope away from your pool and there should be a weeping tile or french drain system like you'd use behind a retaining wall or around your foundation if necessary. A mis-sloped concrete patio and driveway is a nightmare.

 

[cyamaha2007]

we make trench drains that are over poured and have a expansion strip on either side so you can cut the existing concrete create a base and set the drain in place.

 

[reedwesd]

we make trench drains that are over poured and have a expansion strip on either side so you can cut the existing concrete create a base and set the drain in place.

Do you have any pictures of this?

I am unable to up load pictures right now. Where i will be directing the water to is a fairly flat spot away from the pool area. I plan on putting a drain system there to get it even further away. The water does not actual run in the pool but onto the concrete areound the pool. It is slopped away from the pool but all the stuff that washs down builds up in one spot on the padio.

 

[jrherald420]

Maybe your just taking on groundwater being so close to Lake Cumberland? Have they got that dam patched up yet, or is she still leakin?

LOL Lake Cumberland is about 2 1/2 hours away from where he lives.....

 

[nate379]

What's the problem, don't need to ever fill the pool up that way??? Right???? right???