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Hank Rogers[_2_]

U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:17:49 -0400, wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 11:15:08 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Cindy, we didn't have that singular flood experience because of a high water table...it was water
>> >from rain ... When the ground got saturated after a few days of continuing torrential downpours, the ground
>>> became super-saturated and water didn't have any place to go. if the flooding had been because of a
>>> high water table, like being on bottomland or too near a river, creek or lake, I would be eligible
>>> for flood insurance, according to what the insurance people told me. But I am not.
>>>
>>> I am at an elevation such that the builders thought there was no reason to install underground drainage pipe
>>> around the foundation when we built the house. This area was farmland before it was developed into
>>> Residential neighborhoods.
>>>
>>> N.
>>
>> I'm on farmland/bottomland, 70 years ago when these houses
>> were built they installed French drains... the houses were built on
>> the highest points and before the water table rises under the house
>> the French drain directs it away to a lower point. Here that water
>> drains by a six inch pipe to a creek some 100' away. There's a large
>> grate in my basement floor covering a pit that connects to that French
>> drain pipe. The water from the dehumidifier, the RO water filter the
>> deep sink, and the washing machine in the basement all drain into that
>> pit and that grey water flows to the creek.
>
> So, you're draining waste water into a live creek. Nice. Sheldon the
> polluter and destroyer of nature.
>

Hell thats not too bad for Popeye. He throws his garbage out his windows.