As a child, the home we lived in, almost always flooded, water coming back out of the drains in the basement, and boy would it get deep!! It was due to the county first and later the city mandating that drainage piping for the eaves had to flow on to your lawn not go down a pipe into the City drainage system. We finally had no choice but to finally call in a plumber who for that one-time charge, cut open the floor, and installed a ground-water sump pump and we never looked back.
Fast-forward to today - I am on the other side of the country and what my present city now recommends you to do is install a back-flow preventer and typically it goes in a box in the basement floor so that it can be occasionally checked to make sure that the flap that allows water to leave but not flow back into the house, is not blocked by something thus defeating the purpose of the back-flow preventer!
As a child, the home we lived in, almost always flooded, water coming back out of the drains in the basement, and boy would it get deep!! It was due to the county first and later the city mandating that drainage piping for the eaves had to flow on to your lawn not go down a pipe into the City drainage system. We finally had no choice but to finally call in a plumber who for that one-time charge, cut open the floor, and installed a ground-water sump pump and we never looked back.
Fast-forward to today - I am on the other side of the country and what my present city now recommends you to do is install a back-flow preventer and typically it goes in a box in the basement floor so that it can be occasionally checked to make sure that the flap that allows water to leave but not flow back into the house, is not blocked by something thus defeating the purpose of the back-flow preventer!