The completion of our driveway, and one of the curbs we installed for that, created another puddle area, which became apparent over last weekends storm.

In that particular area, we did put a french drain in all along that curb which drains into the permeable paver driveway on the other side of it.  But the water just wasn’t draining well enough to satisfy me, probably due to the heavy soil we have.

Since we put 6 inch drainage pipes on either side of the property, it was easy for us to simply tap into the pipe in that area and add a couple of surface drains.

Voila!  We had the next storm, a pretty heavy one, last night, and the drains performed well, with no water puddling in that area.

While the rain has been a hindrance for our forward progress on the landscaping (for some reason people don’t want to work outside when it is raining), it has given us a very good opportunity to repeatedly check our drainage, and tweak it between storms.  As it stands, our property performs very well; it has lots of permeable area, supplemented with surface drains to account for excess flow during heavy rain.