St. Louis Drainage Experts – Guaranteed Stormwater Solutions That Last
When rainwater collects around your home, business, or property, it can cause far more than puddles. Standing water leads to foundation cracks, mold, mildew, and structural damage that threaten your health and your largest investment. That’s why smart property owners call Drainage Team, the guaranteed solution for long-term stormwater control.
For decades, Drainage Team has protected homes, commercial buildings, and landscapes across St. Louis from water intrusion and flooding. We design and install precision-engineered drainage systems that capture, redirect, and move water safely away from structures… keeping your property dry, stable, and healthy.
If you notice pooling water, soil erosion, basement leaks, or musty odors after storms, it’s time for a professional drainage inspection. Every symptom is your property’s way of signaling a deeper issue, and fast action prevents costly repairs later.
Drainage Team offers every type of solution, including downspout piping systems, French drains, surface grates and channel drains, and decorative dry creek beds that combine function with beauty. We also design swales and landscape contours that naturally guide stormwater away from foundations and structures.
Every project is built with the industry’s best materials, including Schedule 35 PVC and Severe Duty ADS N12 Dual Wall Piping, delivering maximum flow efficiency and long-term durability through the toughest Midwest storms.
Don’t let water intrusion cause mold, erosion, or foundation damage. Whether the challenge is residential, commercial, exterior, or interior, Drainage Team delivers guaranteed stormwater and drainage protection designed to last.
Schedule your on-site consultation today and experience why Drainage Team is the most trusted name in professional drainage solutions across St. Louis.
Our Drainage Systems & Solutions
Downspout Piping
We use PVC for piping downspouts underground to ensure water is captured and transported to where you want on your property, for decades. Moreover, we install PVC downspout cleanout connections on every downspout for easy access and cleaning. “Freeze Stops” connections are installed at each sump pump discharge to allow sump pumps to flow, even during the harshest winter weather freezing conditions. Especially, we have the expert downspout drainage options you’ve been searching for!
Drain Grates
The Drain grates are an ideal solution for capturing surface water that’s accumulating and causing a nuisance or a property flooding situation. Especially, we have drainage grate installation for lawn areas, patios, foundations, sidewalks, driveways and many more. Moreover, our drainage grates range in size from 4 inch round atrium drains all the way up to 4 foot parking lot drains.
French Drains
Our professional french drain installations are the best in the business. We only use PVC piping internally and we build them to the size needed for the surface area or sub-surface area watershed. Moreover, our French drains range from 1 foot wide x 1.5 feet deep all the way up to 4 feet wide x 4 feet deep (or larger). So, the best part is, when you call us for french drain system installation in St. Louis, we solve your water problem and we guarantee it.
Trench Drains
The Trench drains, also known as “Exposed French Drainage Systems Installation” is the ideal solution for an area where there’s high flow water and a long area that needs drained. Moreover, another benefit of a trench drain is that they can capture sub-surface water as well because the sub-grade portion of the trench drain acts as a french drain allowing water in the soil to drain into the trench drain piping. So, trench drains are a great option for a yard drainage system.
Dry Well Drainage Systems
The Dry well systems are underground structures designed to store water and gradually infiltrate the water into the ground.
In theory, dry wells provide significant stormwater infiltration capacity in a relatively small footprint. So, the challenge in St. Louis, Missouri is the high clay content in the soil… oftentimes this limits the effectiveness of the systems. We recommend always having overflows on dry well systems. Overflows can include a simple pipe installed to a lower elevation, or an external pumping system to pump off excess water during rainy months.
Moreover, our crews build dry wells from scratch and we also install the patented NDS Flo-Well® Engineered Dry Well systems.
Permeable Pavement
The Permeable paving helps to protect sewer system loads by delaying surge flow during heavy rain events while also filtering the water prior to entry into the sewer systems. Moreover, these sustainable drainage systems have a positive impact on water quality.
Paved surfaces for both pedestrians and vehicles can be made of porous materials that enables stormwater to flow through the material. So, we also install nonporous blocks that are spaced so water can flow between the blocks.
The key to a long-term successful permeable pavement project is the subsurface drainage system (below the pavement) and the system components / design, etc.
Channel Drains
The Channel drains are used for draining hard surface areas such as pool decks, parking lots, sidewalks, patios, driveways, etc. So, we can install any type of channel drain ranging from a 2″ channel drain on a pool deck to a large channel drain running across a parking lot or municipal street. Moreover, channel drains are a common component of drainage systems in St. Louis MO.
External Sump Pumps
The External sump pumps are sometimes necessary when the grade is such that water cannot be drained using gravity or utilizing an existing storm sewer. So, in these situations, we have the technology and skillset to install a reliable sump pump system on the exterior of your home or business. We only recommend external sump pumps when there is no other option for water relocation.
Concrete Drainage Inlets
Heavy stormwater flow negatively impacts parking lot areas, large lawn areas and many other property settings. So, we can install one, or a series of large storm water inlets to drain a patio area or a multi-acre business complex. Is MSD stormwater management systems not enough for your property? So, contact us today for a solution to your water problem.
Dry Creek Beds
Stormwater control is typically not a beautiful thing… why not add a decorative dry creek bed to make your water control more of a landscaping feature? So, we have the access and the skill to source and install the best decorative rock, boulders and plantings to make your dry river bed for drainage a beautiful focal point on your property.
Window Well Drainage
The Window Wells are commonly used on basement windows. Due to these windows typically being positioned lower than the surface grade, this is a perfect place for water to accumulate. So, once it accumulates, the water either seeps through the window frame or down the exterior foundation wall and then breaches the foundation footing leading to water in the basement. Moreover, not only do we have basement window well drainage solutions to capture the water, we have new window well solutions ranging from heavy duty plastic to decorative stone or block. Contact us for your professional window well drainage system installation today!
Pool Drainage
The pool area drainage issues are common. Water typically accumulates around the area and causes issues to the integrity of the pool. Moreover, we all know that major repairs to a pool can be extremely costly, ongoing, and inconvenient to those that want to enjoy the pool. So, the good news is that we have pool drainage solutions for pool deck surface water, routing backwash discharge lines to ideal locations, subsurface water removal, external sump pump systems, etc.
Swales & Berms
Swales and berms are common components of yard drainage installation projects. Moreover, these methods are used to direct water flow by creating a smooth trough (swale) or raised area (berm or sometimes spelled burm) to control and direct water flow. So, our yard grading experts determine the yard level of the grade that needs to be achieved and then utilizes specialized grading equipment to make the swale grading or berm creation a success.
Road Culvert Piping
Many roads, highways, driveways, railways, etc. have pipes under them to carry water from one side to the other. These are called culvert pipes. Culvert pipes must be large enough to handle the amount of water flowing through the area and must be strong enough to support heavy traffic loads. Contact us for professional culvert installations today!
Our Drainage Process & Best Practices
Drainage Project Management
We have systems in place to manage our relationship with you from your first contact with us all the way through post-project review. We have designated drainage consultants, production managers, quality control measures, designated drainage crews and specialized equipment to complete any sized drainage project.
Drainage Supplier Relationships
Our company maintains vendor relationships like we do with our ongoing clients. Moreover, this ensures our company and our clients the best, up-to-date materials, installation technologies & techniques, pricing, and timeliness of parts and materials while sourcing the material for your project.
On-Site Drainage Consultation
The first step in getting your drainage project completed by us is to meet on-site at your property. SO we can discuss your water issues, how it's impacting your property and your goals in solving them. Moreover, one of our drainage project consultants creates a comprehensive written project proposal & plan to solve them once and for all. We can create a drawing plan, but there are engineering fees associated with these types of plans.
Drainage Project Scheduling
Once your project is accepted, it goes into our production department and placed on our workflow schedule. Moreover, depending on the time of year, your project will be scheduled between 2 weeks – 16 weeks out from the day we received your accepted Project Order Form.
Our Drainage Crews
Once we have come up with a plan and agreement, our crew arrives to implement the solution we proposed. Moreover, our crews are equipped with tools similar to a utility company. Aslo, we execute the project as proposed and as expeditiously as possible.
Precision Drainage Installation
Our crews have all of the necessary tools and equipment to ensure your stormwater project is a success. Moreover, we use lasers and transits to measure the grades during drainage system installations. So, all trenches are compacted with heavy duty, specialized compaction equipment… So there’s no settling once we’re finished with your project.
Professional Drainage Piping Techniques, Maximized
When installing our drainage projects, we implement the absolute best techniques to maximize water flow efficiency within every system we install.
Drainage Materials We Use & Replace
Schedule 35 SDR
N-12® Dual Wall
Single Wall Corrugated
Clay Pipe
Heavy Duty Sewer & Drain Pipe
99% of our drainage projects are constructed using this heavy duty pipe. Moreover, schedule 35 Sewer & Drain pipe (SDR35) is the technical term. So, this is the same material used underground throughout new subdivisions today to transport stormwater runoff.
Many people ask “why not Schedule 40 PVC”… “It is thicker and stronger?” Schedule 35 is designed to be more flexible than Schedule 40. Therefore, it can withstand shifting, settling, and less breaks due to changing soil and weather conditions. Moreover, with Schedule 40, when the soil shifts, the connections will pull apart, the pipe can actually fracture during cold winter weather.
Therefore, when installed properly by a professional contractor, SDR35 is one of the very best drainage piping options available on the market today.
Our Drainage Specialization = Your Benefit
Techniques
Equipment
Disturbance
Compaction
Restoration
Drainage Piping For Efficiency
On all of our drainage pipe installations, we use 22.5 degree connections, 45 degree connections. Moreover, WYE connections to always speed up water flow to allow for the most efficient confluence of drainage components. Therefore, its inflow and discharge during heavy water flow situations.
Your Budget. Our Drainage Solutions.
Over decades of performing professional drainage piping and stormwater control projects, we have analyzed pricing data to generate this general budget outline. This should help you determine the budget size you may need for your project. (All estimated dollar amounts are presented in $1,000.00’s. K = $1,000.00 USD) We cannot give you an exact estimate until we meet you for a drainage project consultation.
PROJECT TYPE | RESIDENTIAL | COMMERCIAL |
|---|---|---|
Downspout Piping | $2.4K – $15K+ | $5K – $50K+ |
Drain Grates | $5K – $50K+ | $5K – $50K+ |
French Drains & Trench Drains | $5K – $50K+ | $5K – $100K+ |
Dry Well Systems | $5K – $20K+ | $5K – $50K+ |
Permeable Pavement | $15K – $50K+ | $12K – $250K+ |
Channel Drains | $10K – $20K+ | $10K – $50K+ |
External Sump Pumps | $5K – $15K+ | $10K – $50K+ |
Concrete Drainage Inlets | $10K – $20K+ | $10K – $50K+ |
Dry Creek Beds | $5K – $15K+ | $5K – $50K+ |
Window Well Drainage | $5K – $20K+ | $5K – $25K+ |
Pool Drainage Systems | $5K – $15K+ | $5K – $50K+ |
Swales & Berms | $5K – $20K+ | $5K – $50K+ |
Road Culvert Piping | $10K – $20K+ | $10K – $50K+ |
