French Drain and Yard Drainage in Portage, MI
Kalamazoo Drainage Pros installs drains and clears standing water in Portage, Michigan, the large suburb just south of Kalamazoo. We are a licensed and insured drainage contractor handling french drains, grading and slope correction, buried downspouts, catch basins, and sump discharge lines for homes across the city.
Most of Portage went up as subdivisions cut into graded clay, and that fill keeps settling for years after the house is finished. As it drops, the fall built at construction flattens, and downspouts start feeding the foundation. We fix that with solid PVC buried to a pop-up emitter and a rebuilt grade, and where water sits in the soil, perforated pipe in washed #57 stone behind filter fabric. A bare gravel trench on this clay packs shut instead.
Portage drainage is mostly a new-build story. The houses are not old, but the ground under them was scraped and filled to make the lots, and reworked clay never stops moving. A grade that shed water at closing can lean back at the house a few seasons later, the sump starts running more than it used to, and a basement that was dry begins to weep. The build was fine. The ground shifted under it.
Our work in Portage covers grading and slope correction, buried downspout lines, french drains, and sump discharge that actually reaches the yard. Every job starts with a free written estimate.
Call (269) 555-0177 for a free estimate in Portage. If your subdivision home went dry-to-wet in a few seasons, the settled grade is usually the reason.