Can I avoid the need for footing drain disconnection if I take actions such as redirecting my downspouts, sloping soil away from the foundation or installing low flow fixtures?
While those are excellent approaches to reduce some causes of wet basements and to reduce the volume of water that goes to the Wastewater Treatment Plant, this will not prevent enough water from entering the sewer system inappropriately. Footing drains still collect much of the rainfall that enters the ground. To protect your own and your neighbors’ basements, the large volume of water entering the sewer system from rain storms must not enter the sewer system and FDD is the practical means identified to do this.
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