QUESTION: I am sitting here watching a brand-new home being backfilled without weeping tile. I live quite close to the Red River, about 500 yards away. It is a concrete foundation and they took ...

We will discuss the function of the drainage piping and location, but discussing this with the builder and the local building inspector may yield a more precise answer. Weeping tile important ...

Sump pit drainage system — includes a sump pit, a sump pump and discharge pipe. The sump pit, traditionally set in the basement floor, collects water from the weeping tiles around the basement.

Flooded basements are more likely, the city says, in cases where weeping tile drainage systems are connected to the same pipes that take the wastewater draining from residential sinks and toilets.