neighbors running their sump pump (water) to the street

[piccolopat]

We had friends who had a problem like this years ago. They lived in a neighborhood where the houses were on small lots (mostly 40x100) and with septic tanks. Many of the people pumped their grey water into the street. It pooled in the summer and was a problem with mosquitoes. It pooled and froze in the winter to the point that we either parked on top of the iceberg when visiting or we couldn't park at all. It was not legal there but people did it anyway. Thankfully the city eventually ran sewers there and the problem stopped.

 

[scrapquitler]

Where I live we are required to have the sump drain into the street or back alley so that the water runs into the storm sewer rather than have them hooked into the municipal sewer system. The town is part of a regional sewer system and pays for every cubic meter of flow, and it is already expensive enough without adding the flow from sump pumps.

Your issue, though, is a bit different and may require a swale or something similar to direct the water away from your house. Do you have the same issue from runoff from the street when it rains?

This is the case here in my town as well. You have to drain them into the storm drains in the road, not a floor drain in your basement that flows into the sewer system.

 

[lynxstch]

Zombie thread..I hope they aren't still running that sump pump 7 years later!