Home Getting Started With Drainage Control Figure 1. Sections of this website. Do not panic.
Every coastal property has some degree of surface and groundwater flow.
You will never be able to control these drainages entirely. So the goal of absolute drainage control is usually not technically feasible nor is it usually necessary. The practice of drainage control is really the practice of managing flows to the point where they are not contributing to accelerated erosion and landsliding along your coastal slope. Drainage and coastal erosion may be managed but not eliminated. Therefore, you must plan with them.