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Alleviating perimeter drain water

Murray Hall|发布了GBA Pro Help

We have a sump system with the perimeter perforated corrugated 4″ drain tiling flowing into the sump from a connection under our 6″ thick concrete floor.

If I put a liner into the sump allowing the drains to penetrate and also covered and sealed this liner with a top and installed a 1-1/2″ dia. ABS pipe extending out the top, sealed all floor drains, would the pressure of the perimeter drains build up enough while trying to drain into the sump now enclosed be enough to force the water up and out of the 1-1/2″ ABS pipe to a height of 60 inches? The 1-1/2 pipe now being the route of least resistance to allow the water to escape.

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  1. GBA Editor
    Martin Holladay||#1

    Murray,
    不,漏斗中的压力是无关紧要的。你需要一个叫做油底壳泵的东西。

  2. Murray Hall||#2

    Martin
    I have had a sump pump for 45 years eliminating the water.
    Why do so say the pressure in the drains is inconsequential? When the power fails and the pump is working the pressure is not inconsequential!!

    Please provide the basis of your statement with calculations why my theory/question is possible or not possible.

  3. GBA Editor
    Martin Holladay||#3

    Murray,
    Let's imagine that your basement is a wooden coffin the size of a room, and the wooden coffin is in a very big swimming pool. If the wooden coffin is submerged (by putting in some rocks) so that the water is almost up to the top lip of the coffin, and if you punch a hole in one of the walls, the water will rise inside the coffin to the level of the swimming pool. So I'll concede that it's possible.

    However, you won't have that much hydrostatic pressure around your concrete basement unless you live in New Orleans and the city is experiencing a Katrina-style flood. It's possible, but when it happens it is evidence of an ongoing catastrophe.

  4. Ryan Magladry渥太华,安大略省||#4

    想象一下马蹄形管。“假装”那一端管的一端是你家/地下室外的水,管的底部是水槽泵坑,以及管的顶部,另一端是你的ABS浮雕管道穿过你的房子。在你的情况下,管的顶部是60英寸在底部上方。现在,用水填充管子的一端,并始终处于平衡状态。为了使您的60“高度出口到功能,墙外的水也需要在60英寸的高度,以“推动”水通过。这是液压头。

    Hydrostatic pressures increase when the ground water level is higher than a restricted outlet, think about pinching the bottom of the tube as your pour the water in. Now the incoming water side rises higher, causing a hydraulic head and pressure, 5' of head is approximately 2psi.

    Slightly offtopic; but restricted outlet doesnt necessarily mean pipe, it could also be the backfill material, preventing the ground water even reaching your weepers. That's why in new construction its good to go with a double layer drainage board (geosynthetic + HDPE membrain), that drains down into the clear stone surround of the weeping tile. The weeping tile should be wrapped in geosynthetic to prevent the migration of fines which can clog the pipe.

  5. Murray Hall||#5

    Martin & Ryan

    Thank you for your input. I fully understand your examples
    Now take the coffin if fully sealed on the top will not sink in the swimming pool water if it is full of air and wants to remain buoyant.
    If a hole is put into the sealed top and an ABS pipe is sealed into the hole and at the same time an inlet has been cut into the side of the coffin with a corrugated pipe sealed in and the end of this pipe is above the level of the swimming pool and the coffin is then forced down to the bottom by the necessary force we then have a casket under water pressure (hydrostatic) sitting on the bottom with only the atmospheric pressure of 14.7 psi acting on the 1-1/2" dia. ABS pipe with a 1.78 sq. inches into the coffin top. This would have a force of 26.2 lbs. If we allow the tube into the side to be filled with water by pushing it down below the pool surface the 4" dia. has an area of 12.68 sq. inches generating a force of 14.7 atmospheric psi x 12.68 sq. in. = 186.4 lbs.
    Therefore water would rise in the 1-1/2" pipe located in the top of the coffin to a height that would finally equal the force of the water coming into the 4" corrugated pipe.
    如果包含的情况下,将密封的油槽的压力增加将压力增加到能够将豌豆水升高到4的均衡点,则返回流入贮槽的水平周边漏斗中的水平周边沟槽中产生的水液压力。“流入,从而脱离1-1 / 2管子?
    Would it not be the same as the U-tube example had one side as a smaller diameter the level of water in the smaller dia. side would rise higher then the side with the larger diameter.

  6. 沃尔特Ahlgrim||#6

    The water level in the pipe will always be equal as long as both ends of the pipe are open the same air pressure. The diameter of the pipe only changes how fast the water level equalizes.

    Without a pump the only way to drain the sump is a sloped pipe leading to day light.

    Walta

  7. Jon R.||#7

    But the purpose of footing drains is not just to remove water, they should also relieve all pressure. Because a basement isn't a well sealed boat/coffin and will leak if there is any pressure (caused by standing water outside of it).

  8. Murray Hall||#8

    房屋基础之外的土壤中包含的常设水将流入周边排水沟,并将压力充分填充。当填充水时,水将在被排出的土壤中积聚后压。
    When the drain pressure builds to the maximum from being completely full and then released into a sump, the pressure decreases in the drains.
    My original theory/question put forth is this - If the sump allowing the drains to run freely is sealed with the sealed sump allowing the drains in, and the top of the sealed sump has a small diameter ABS pipe inserted and sealed becoming a pathway for the pressurized drain water to escape as a path of least resistance, why would the drain water not continue to rise up the sump pipe as long as the pressure pushing from the perimeter drains is greater then the column pressure created by the increasing weight of the rising water and the atmospheric pressure on the surface of the vertical sump pipe ? I haven't seen a complete convincing answer to this date.

  9. GBA Editor
    Martin Holladay||#9

    Murray,
    I think we all understood your question. The answer is that the pressure never builds up to the point you anticipate. For one thing, the water would start coming through the cracks between your foundation walls and the footing, as well as small cracks in your foundation wall. For another, the pressure just isn't great enough -- which is why sump pump manufacturers are still in business.

    Lots of people have sumps with airtight and watertight lids, along with pipes to remove water. These airtight sumps all have pumps.

    You don't have to believe us, though. Buy a sump with an airtight lid, install it without a pump, and let us know how things work out.

  10. Murray Hall||#10

    Martin
    The part of your last answer is probably all I was looking for," the pressure just isn't great enough".
    Now how do you calculate this pressure?

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  11. Jon R.||#11

    If you have 2 feet of standing water behind the lower portion of your basement walls, then you have ~2 feet of H2O of water pressure. This pressure will lift water to any height less than 2' above the bottom of the basement wall.

  12. 沃尔特Ahlgrim||#12

    If you have 2 feet of water behind your walls and you turn off the pump a few hours later the water level inside the wall and outside will be the same as your floor to wall joint is not watertight.

    Walta

  13. Murray Hall||#13

    In theory, if your basement walls and floor are watertight and my above scenario is in place, as the water builds up outside, the water in the ABS pipe on top of the sump enclosure will also climb to the level of outside water as the water flows into the sealed sump case.
    Let's assume the outside water build up reaches 6 ft,. the distance from the basement floor to ground level.
    If an outside sump drain is taking the water away and the opening is at ground level ( 6 ft, above the basement floor) and is buried at least 6 ft. horizontally draining to a creek behind the house and you tap into this corrugated drain below ground level, say 5ft. down and near the foundation and install a vertical perforated pipe into the sump drain line, the build up pressure of the ground water should not happen as the vertical pipe should act as a pressure relief route for the ground water.
    我不确定周边周围的所有地下水是否会被排出,当然,在所有概率水中仍然会倾向于流向现有的周边漏斗,但大大减少了。

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