Our driveway regularly floods when it rains, and takes awhile to dry out because of the angles and build up of silt and leaves. The silt gets slippery and we are having an unusually wet summer, so it makes the surface treacherous. I thought if I dig out the corner and place a flag stone, I might reduce the erosion. I stated digging and was quite surprised to find a drain buried under a couple inches of dirt.

The drain connects to a similar drain on the opposite side of the driveway that I unearthed a few years ago. One mystery solved. Surprisingly, the pipe that connects the two drains is not plugged with dirt and water sprayed into the newly excavated drain goes out, under the driveway, to the other side. Now to figure out a way to keep dirt from building up and blocking it again. Hm.