This step by step tutorial of how to build a french drain with dry well is a landscaping solution for a build up water on sloping homesteading land. Not all land is perfectly suited to wash excess water away from a house, barn, chicken coop or retaining walls but there are a variety of solutions that can re direct the water flow. Excess water built up in a certain section of land can also cause over saturating of the soil causing trees to fall over during a high wind storm.
A French drain is a trench filled with gravel or rock or containing a perforated pipe that redirects surface water and groundwater away from an area. A French drain can have perforated hollow pipes along the bottom to quickly vent water that seeps down through the upper gravel or rock. Pre-engineered French drain systems that eliminate the need for gravel and rock have become increasingly popular since their introduction over 40 years ago. The common features of these systems include a lightweight gravel substitute that is wrapped around perforated corrugated pipe and covered with commonly used filter fabric as quoted by wikipedia.
