Vertical drain pipe

I am having a drainage problem as well and I wondered if I could just stick a drain pipe straight down into the ground- vertical- with some type of screen on top to drain standing water in my yard? Like say maybe 5 of them at different points of the yard?

Hi Deb! Welcome to Permies!
I moved your post in an old thread to a new thread where it would get more attention.

A vertical pipe in your yard, as you described would need to someplace for the water to go. If there's no drain point, you'd just have a tube filled with water. Which, in my climate, would breed mosquitoes.

A drain needs to have an outlet. Do you have a low spot you make the water flow to? There are plants that would love it there, rain gardens are made to use the water that is in a low spot.

We have a whole forum here about putting plants in wet soil  https://permies.com/f/490/wetlands  you might look through it, see if anything makes sense in your yard.

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Hi, Deb

Welcome to the forum!

If your problem is a low spot in the yard that problem might easily be solved by having a load of dirt brought in to fill in the low spot.

Or a series of berms and ditches might solve the problem.

Can you tell if you only have this problem after a heavy rain?

Where I used to live we had a problem with water washing across the property.

I dug a ditch down the side of the driveway so all the water would run into the ditch in front of the house.  

Later when we were able to buy supplies we made French drains that solved the problem.

I hope you will find something to solve this problem.

As others have indicated, more information is needed:  How large is your yard, how much standing water, how often does this occur, how low is your yard compared to neighboring areas?  Possible options might include raising the level of your yard, drainage tile, or dry wells.

Or collect it in a small pond. A reliable water source is a big deal for birds, butterflies, and pollinators. Throw in a few feeder goldfish to take care of any mosquito larvae (make sure they can't escape in a flood!).

Douglas, I like the small pond ideas with fish for mosquito larva.

That idea is really clever.