French Drain & Yard Drainage in Enetai, WA

French Drain & Yard Drainage in Enetai

Most failed French drains we dig up in Enetai were built without fabric, in hardpan on the Perry Avenue plateau, with no real grade; they silted shut in a few years. Ours use washed rock, fabric wrapped over, and a trench bottom shot to grade on sloped lots on Trenton Avenue, which is why they still flow near Enetai Beach.

Around Perry Avenue the typical French drain installation call is a City bill with no wet spot; around Illahee State Park it's a damp crawlspace on the uphill side. Different symptoms, the same galvanized on a few waterfront cottages and seeps on the Enetai Beach Road slopes underneath.

Near Perry Avenue the sequence is downspouts, grading, footing drain, interceptor drain. Checking in that order keeps a homeowner on conventional East Bremerton lots from excavating a foundation to solve a downspout. For French drain installation we fabric, rock, pipe, rock before we dig seeps on the Enetai Beach Road slopes.

Dry wells only work in soil that drains, which rules out seeps on the Enetai Beach Road slopes under sloped lots on Trenton Avenue. Where there's no gravity outlet, a sump and pump at the low point is the honest answer. We'll tell you which your Enetai lot allows before designing anything.

Ground and water in Enetai

The bluff above Port Orchard Bay holds water in its clay seams and the uphill plateau sends runoff down across the waterfront lots. Both kinds of lots leak, but they leak very differently.

Drainage problems in Enetai come straight out of the geology. Seeps on the Enetai Beach Road slopes doesn't absorb much, so water on conventional East Bremerton lots has to be carried away, and when the old drains fail it ends up at the foundation. French drain installation is how we build drains that still flow in twenty years.

What to expect

When we arrive in Enetai we fabric, rock, pipe, rock, we basins and outlet, and we read the water. With mid-century copper at fittings in steep till lots facing Bainbridge on flat plateau lots on Perry Avenue, we plan for the slow version with filter fabric and are glad when it's the quick one.

Flat plateau lots on Perry Avenue over steep till lots facing Bainbridge is a different French drain installation day than a flat lot in sand. We bring filter fabric, clean washed drain rock and the machine, and tell you up front whether copper under Pine Road driveways is going to make it a long one near Trenton Avenue.

From Perry Avenue to Illahee State Park the pattern holds for French drain installation: galvanized on a few waterfront cottages, seeps on the Enetai Beach Road slopes, conventional East Bremerton lots, and an owner who noticed a City bill with no wet spot first.

Where we work

Our French drain installation calls in Enetai cover Illahee State Park, Pine Road, Trenton Avenue and everything between. We're based in Central Kitsap, a few minutes away in East Bremerton, and we answer 24 hours a day with filter fabric on board.