Danger of Corrugated Pipe

Recently, a young child fell into a sink hole caused by failing stormwater pipes. Are you preventing liability with your neighbors and employees by being proactive with stormwater maintenance and inspections?

If your property was built over 30 years ago, there’s a pretty good chance that corrugated metal pipe was used. This pipe, from holding water, eventually begins to rust. Once rust has eaten through the pipe, soil begins to wash into your stormwater system.

The first sign of a problem could be extra sediment in your stormwater pond and nearby streams. Of course, the added sediment into your pond becomes costly to remove, and fines can be connected to polluting the stream with sediment. However, there is a bigger liability. The wash out of soil under ground creates a cavity, or sink hole. 

Through routine maintenance and inspections, you increase the chance of finding these problems before costly sediment removal, expensive fines, or endangering your employees and neighbors. 

Call Buck Outdoors Stormwater Solutions to establish a maintenance plan for a peace of mind.