Drainage Palm Beach & Martin

SMC Contracting is a licensed drainage and stormwater contractor in Palm Beach County, Florida, installing area drains, roof downspout drainage, trench drains, deck drains, exfiltration systems, and stormwater tie-ins for residential and commercial properties. Drainage is one of our eight core sitework categories and has been a specialty of SMC since 1974.

A typical drainage plan ties in roof drains, landscape drainage, surface water from hardscapes, and — on coastal sites — tidal and ground water. Engineers design the system around exfiltration areas, bubble-ups, area drains, and city stormwater connections, and every element elevation is critical for the system to work.

Sewer and Septic Systems

Palm Beach island has both municipality sewer and septic systems, SMC is able to install and service both types of sewer systems

Storm Drain hookups

Typically SMC will only work on city stormwater in an emergency or if there is a major utility conflict that has to be dealt with. city storm drainage system. Residential houses are typically designed to catch and handle their own run-off water without taxing the city storm drainage system.

Rain catchment drainage will be routed by underground pipe to catchment areas on the property (exfiltration holding areas). This is a standard service that SMC is proficient with.

The types of rain catchment are usually from roof water, hardscape catchment, or landscape catchment.

Exfils (exfiltration)

Engineers will create a site drainage plan to contain any water and keep it onsite without it overflowing to neighboring properties or roads.

Exfiltration catchment areas are the catchment areas for the runoff for surface and roof drain water. In South Florida this normally consists of an excavated catchment area with perforated pipe surrounded by large aggregate to temporarily hold water. Engineers will determine the sizes of exfil areas.

Drainage items that lead to Exfiltration areas

• Area Drains
• Roof Down spouts
• Trench Drains
• Deck Drains
• Overflows
• Baffled collection basins
• Storm Lift Stations

Catch Basins

Catch basins collect small amounts of water and any debris drops to the bottom of the basin and can be cleaned out later. They normally have a lid or top grate.

Bubble ups

Bubble ups are an exit place for any stormwater to overflow to the surface. Bubble ups typically designed to move water away from one area to a low area, and are only designed to handle a small amount of overflow.

Area Drains

Area drains are a simple way to catch any surface water, and are normally placed in low spots to prevent flooding and drain an area. Typically area drainage leads to an exfiltration retention area.

Trench Drains

Trench drains are common drainage features in Florida as an efficient way to drain surface water from hardscaped areas such as pool decks, patios or driveways.

Trench drains may also be required by your municipality to avoid surface flooding on to streets, they accomplish this by tying the trench into the normal storm water drainage system.

Trench drains are also known as

• channel drains
• slot drains
• linear drains
• strip drains

Image above shows an installed trench drain before the final stone is installed

Down Spouts

Roofing gutters will be routed to down spouts, we can hook the down spouts into the storm drain system.