Rain gutter tricks to handle desert downpours without erosion or flooding

It's Wild Card Wednesday. This is an automotive channel. This relates to the garage I built with 1700 square feet of roof surface surrounded by soil that could best be described as brown flour. The building also happens to be in an area that doesn't get much rain, but when it does rain in the Utah desert it can flash flood vehicles away in a storms that only last 10 minutes. If you don't build and landscape to handle that you can be liable for damage to neighboring properties and the erosion can cause foundation damage over time. On three corners of the building the drainage goes to water absorbing and soil retaining grass, but on the fourth corner it's gravel substrate sloping to a property line. I wanted the roof and down pipes to look uniform, but managing erosion as much as possible without overflowing the rain gutter or over weighing it either. To that end I installed a stand pipe that acts like a stand pipe in a fuel tank, but backwards. The fourth down pipe only drains when brief heavy downpours begin to overfill the gutter trough if at all. To compensate for the excessive drainage load to the other end of the rain gutter I installed a concrete basin to receive into a 4" pipe that carries water away from the building far enough to go around it where it can pool against the grass low enough to act as a buffer till the water can be absorbed, but low enough that it couldn't back up and flood the building. On the other side I installed water barrels to hold desert downpour water and release it slowly to allow the grass time to soak it in. In this downpour they were over filled. Fortunately the barrels are surrounded by grass so the run off doesn't damage anything.

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