Gutter Drains Into Sewer
Surprisingly there is nothing in most building codes that prevents downspouts from.
Gutter drains into sewer. Can gutter downspouts be connected to 4 inch pipes that lead to footing drains. In which case we have to dump it onto the lawn in a way that it s away from the house. This is blocked up and so water just runs off over path but more worrying pools in the hole at the corner of the house. Where there is a storm sewer system normally the floor drains foundation drains and not normally the gutters go to the storm sewer along with any water from the street.
The other possibility is a catch basin for any debris before it would go into a storm system. You can also hire a professional to tap into an underground drainage system if you have one installed on your. Most places here included have laws against dumping gutter or sump pump water into the sewer system. The footing drains eventually terminate at daylight away from the house.
Some underground gutter drains terminate in the sewer system instead of at the edge of your yard. Guttering at one side of roof discharges into a downpipe at side of house that then itself discharges into a soil filled whole which we think is a soakaway. Blockages in the under floor drain combined with high volumes of roof runoff water entering the system send the entire. The sewer would definately remove it from being a threat to the foundation but may become ilegal if it s not already.
In that case measure from the downspout to the nearest manhole and use an auger line at least. Since the house due to its age has a combined sewer system ie at other side of house the guttering goes into a bottle gulley which discharges into the same drain as the bathroom waste is it okay legal to connect. A paul fisette director of building materials and wood technology at the university of massachusetts amherst and a jlc contributing editor responds. The water simply drains into the ground at the end of the underground downspouts.