Storm Water Drainage - connection

Yellow · Mar 16, 2011 9:44 pm

Hi

Has anyone come across an issue like this. SS has informed us that we don't have a legal point of discharge of storm water in our property that we have to have a drain going through neighbours property to the street near by. Has any one had this issue before. How did your convince your neighboure to allow your plumbers to dig their backyard to put the drainage pipe? Can the neighboure refuse us?

thanks
Yellow

Lex · Mar 17, 2011 7:32 am

No idea, but it seems that you also need to check with your Council. They may be able to offer some advice.
You don't mention this, but I suppose your SW would be coming from the whole roof area of your house and garage, not just from some additional small-scale pergola roof, or small-scale sections of soil drainage (which could, in most cases, simply be diverted into a pit or sometimes into a sloping yard area)?

In some old built-up areas, the SW discharge points are scarce. It gets tricky when one has to push water uphill to get to a legal discharge point - or rather, create a pit of some kind in their own property. Or, in your case, as your builder wants, across other properties.

bella buterfly · Mar 17, 2011 2:35 pm

Yes we had same problem,also crossed over into another council area.The other council refused.,so we have had to put in our own stormwater pits and drainage

Yellow · Mar 18, 2011 9:42 pm

bella buterfly

Yes we had same problem,also crossed over into another council area.The other council refused.,so we have had to put in our own stormwater pits and drainage

Hi bella

Thanks for the info. We have to dig our neighbours property to go to the street nearby to install the pit.

Did you have to pay for the installtion of the pit or the builder payed for it. Did you have any issues with the neighbour? Can the neighbour refuse?

Yellow · Mar 18, 2011 9:50 pm

Lex

No idea, but it seems that you also need to check with your Council. They may be able to offer some advice.
You don't mention this, but I suppose your SW would be coming from the whole roof area of your house and garage, not just from some additional small-scale pergola roof, or small-scale sections of soil drainage (which could, in most cases, simply be diverted into a pit or sometimes into a sloping yard area)?

In some old built-up areas, the SW discharge points are scarce. It gets tricky when one has to push water uphill to get to a legal discharge point - or rather, create a pit of some kind in their own property. Or, in your case, as your builder wants, across other properties.

Thanks Lex.

Yellow · Mar 18, 2011 9:54 pm

Has anyone had the storm water legal point of discharge not in their backyard but in the neighbours backyard or in the nearby street.

If so was the cost of creating legal point of discharge is passed on to you by builder or builder takes the cost?
Did the neighbour refuse?

Thanks
Yellow

bella buterfly · Mar 23, 2011 1:51 pm

Hi Yellow,Had to go thru neighbours as well,now have to put in our own stormwater tanks,we are planning to do this ourselves after handover,were a long time away from that at moment,so have no idea how much it will end up costing us.Has already cost $660 for engineering drawings to be done(thru builder) so that it could be shown on plan for shire.It kinda sucks.We have to have 3 tanks and a subsoil overflow.Anybody would think we were colecting stormwater for whole of street 1500 dia x 1200 depth volume 6.36 House is 280sq mtrs on a slight slope/clay and other side we have to have a subsoil drainage which is to run legth of house at $5500(being done by builder).