Water is crucial in many ways, and it's very insistent - it can harm roads, sidewalks, and even buildings. Asphalt pavement must be properly drained.

The homeowners usually discover in the first few years of their home's occupancy whether they have an issue with drainage. This is because of seasonality – rainy months and dry months, snow and ice vs. hot sun - can play differently on the surface of your sidewalks, driveways, and your home's foundation.

In the initial year, when you have an issue, you'll be able to see it. The lawn with low spots is likely to be wet and difficult to keep. Poor spots on a sidewalk or driveway are not just a source of inconvenience, but they may also be more susceptible to deterioration than other places. If you are driving through the incline of an old viaduct, look at how the pavement, even if it's not brand new, has potholes and cracks. This is due to standing water that weakens the base layer of asphalt, leading to rapid degradation.

In paved areas for residential use, water pools after heavy rainfall is usually due to the design being poor, poor construction, or a possible settling of the soil beneath (which ought to have been considered as a possibility by an asphalt company in designing the original plan). The reality is that water needs an area to move, and if a paved surface is not permeable or correctly sloped, it can persist and cause problems.

This means that you can get an adequate drainage system from the asphalt surfaces of your home by one of two methods - either let it soak or redirect the water elsewhere:

Soak it in: Although water is often viewed as a danger to be eliminated, it can be beneficial to trees and other plants in your yard to let it soak into permeable pavers as well as a driveway made of gravel. Be aware that even though gravel can be an ideal aesthetic choice for landscaping is also a requirement for maintenance. Additionally, it must be set on soil or a permeable base of brick which is set with a central crown "spine" that drains properly. Additionally, if the driveway runs flush with the foundation of the building, it can create more issues for the home than it helps solve.

In the case of terrain that is more hilly, like those where the house is located below the street level, it becomes complex. Permeable pavers can do many things; however, the slot drain (a kind of trench, typically with a metal or steel grate cover to prevent debris from entering) can also be utilized.

Environmentalists advocate investigating the soak-in option to reduce floods that affect the entire community (which could cause sewer water to enter streams and lakes) instead of redirecting the water's flow into the earth's natural water aquifer. One method includes creating an aquifer-driven pathway (via trench drains, dry creeks, trench drains, or French drainages) away from pavement and other structures to bioswales and rain gardens.

Drain to Another Place: A most common strategy is to slough off the water from the building and away from the property completely. It's as easy as repaving the road so that your center crown has been well constructed and designed. To ensure that runoff from the water also drains away from the buildings, it might be necessary to install trench drains, dry creeks, dry drains, or French drains that lead the water flow into the municipal system drains.

In any case, the goal is to get the water to work to your advantage instead of working against your property and you. This is the reason the asphalt contractors were designed to do.