Yard Drains & Catch Basins in Asheville & Western North Carolina

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What Is a Yard Drain?

A yard drain is a box — typically a 12” NDS catch basin — set into the ground with a grate on top that sits flush with the surface. Water flows across the ground, drops through the grate into the box, and exits through a pipe connected to the side or bottom of the basin. That pipe — the conveyance line — carries the water by gravity to a discharge point downhill, which could be a pop-up emitter, a drainage swale, a ditch, or daylight at the edge of the property.

We set our catch basins as perforated units inside a gravel bed. This means the basin works as both a surface drain and a point French drain. Water enters through the grate on top, but it also seeps in through the perforated walls from the surrounding gravel — capturing both surface water and shallow subsurface water in one installation.