Fortunately, there's a ubiquitous and inexpensive element that can help you solve many of the drainage-related headaches in your landscape: gravel. Gravel is a highly effective drainage medium ...

The classic French drain is simple - just a trench filled with gravel, with sand on top. It allows excess water to percolate through the sand and gravel, eliminating the puddles. The modern ...

A French drain is the term for any gravel-and-tile or gravel-and-pipe-based system. It takes its name from Henry Flagg French, who chronicled its use in agriculture in the mid-19th century.

The Lombard Village Board had voted unanimously May 22 to order Swan to remove the gravel ”post haste” and install a hard base and a proper drainage system, according to ordinance. He had ...

A French drain is a ditch in sloped ground, inset with a perforated pipe under a layer of gravel. From the surface, a French drain looks like a rock drainage ditch, and when done well, like a nice ...