When planning to build a new home, business, or subdivision, it’s important to make sure the land is properly developed before you begin construction. Even if your team takes immense care to ensure every part of the building is just right, all that work won’t amount to much if there is a problem with the land. For example, if you don’t take care to install effective storm drainage solutions, your building will likely suffer water damage.
In this article, our team at Tucker Land Development will explain why storm drainage is critical for land development.
- Water Detention – One reason why storm drainage is so critical to effective land development is it provides a means of water detention. In other words, a good storm drainage system is designed to direct water away from important structures such as homes, businesses, roads, and the like, and instead to channel it into detention ponds where it will not cause problems. Detention ponds are designed to collect the runoff of heavy rainfall or snowmelt in order to prevent flooding.
- Water Retention – The other main reason why you need good storm drainage for your land development project is sometimes you want to keep the water close by and accessible. For this reason, many storm drainage systems use water retention ponds to collect rainwater and retain it for use in irrigation. Our team can design a storm drainage system that offers an ideal balance of both retention and detention mechanisms, allowing you to collect enough water to irrigate the landscaping on your property while also protecting the buildings and infrastructure from flood damage.