French Drain Question

I installed a smaller French drain in my yard a couple years ago and did a lot of research.

Don't see any issue with your design. Although in Louisiana soils a dry well may not be worth it.

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I personally believe that the sumps you are planning are unnecessary.

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When you say sumps, do you mean the # of Inlets/grates i am showing?

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When you say sumps, do you mean the # of Inlets/grates i am showing?

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no. i said sumps in describing what you called "dry wells". unless you have some serious ground water (IE the lowest lot anywhere around) then this is probably unnecessary.

Glad to find a relatively recent post on this topic. Ill be planning something very similar in the near future.

I have a similar design in mind to OP but without the dry wells (our yard isnt that large to justify it)

Question: For the endpoint of the pipe, what is the best way to let it drain toward the street. My yard has a sidewalk that intersects the direction of the pipe toward the street (obviously) so I imagine the pip would have to stop just before the sidewalk. My main question is, 'is that fine/normal to do?' Its probably a dumb obvious question but I just wanted to be sure. My yards slope isnt very significant so itll be a nice challenge to get the lions share of the pipe to be angled correctly but mainly I just didnt want to be getting cited if letting the pipe drain onto the sidewalk was against a vague code or anything.

Any advice is appreciated

I put in a french drain system at my house this weekend. Hell of a project. I was a cheapo and decided to not rent the ditch digger, big mistake

I put 2 square catch basins by my back patio and then sent that to the fence and then connected that to a low spot in my back yard with another catch basin.

The hard part was that the low spot in the corner was so low, that I had to leave the damn sticking up out of the yard so much, but I went back and tried to raise the area around it with the dirt that I dug up the trenches with. Hell of a project.

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I imagine the pip would have to stop just before the sidewalk

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If you're going to do all that work, I'd rather have the water drain to the street. You can easily tunnel under the sidewalk with a hose nozzle. Just dig a pit to the depth you need on either side of the sidewalk and let the hose/water pressure do the work. You'll be able to slide a section of pipe all the way to the street. I also sawcut the curb on mine so my pipe sits right at street level.

I found some great youtube videos on this. I just didn't feel like doing that because I am pretty sure you need to notch out your curb as well correct?

Ok good to know for if/when I decide to do all that. If the pop-up valve works, then I ride with that, but I know I can always come back and dig further and go under my sidewalk.