At a home in Sterling Heights, we installed an NDS Flo-Well dry well to take the water from the sump pump discharge.
Location: Sterling Heights, MI
Service: Dry well for sump pump discharge
Date: October 2026
The problem
The water this home’s sump pump pushes out needed somewhere to go. The goal was to let it soak into the ground on the property instead of ponding in the yard or overloading the sewer.
What we did
- Dug a clean trench from the house out to the back with our Bobcat E20.
- Ran white Schedule 30 PVC pipe and tied it into the sump pump discharge.
- Set a gray NDS Flo-Well chamber in the pit.
- Surrounded the chamber with 6A stone, about a foot to a foot and a half under, around and on top of it.
The result
The sump pump discharge now goes to the dry well and soaks into the soil on site instead of ponding or overloading the sewer.
More on this kind of work: our exterior drainage service (French drains, dry wells and yard regrading), our Sterling Heights service area page and our other projects.
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