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Thomas G. Marshall

said something like:
On Apr 12, 2:40 pm, "Thomas G. Marshall"
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I tried that, but I just cannot keep my lawn cutters from squashing
the thing with their tractor.

Most houses have landscaping around the perimeter. If possible, you
could consider a 5 ft wide landscape bed in the area of the
downspout. The corrigated pipe then stops at the edge of the bed.
They even have flexible pipe like that with ends that fit over the
downspout pipe. The bed can be attractive and add value to the
house.

There is already 4' landscaping there. What I had previously was this:

downspout -- Flex pipe -- gutter pipe to edge

(that would dump the water onto the grass just past the rocks that line the
mulch.)

But it only 1/2 worked. The water flow just wasn't enough away from the
house. So I added some gutter pipe (about 1' long) to dump water a foot
past the rock and it improved things considerably, but not enough to keep
the flood out of the corner of the basement. That and the landscaping
grunts squash the thing flat every time.

*So perhaps I should resculpt the lawn a little* ? I could make it so that
the "pipe to edge of rocks" idea results in water continuing to flow away
from the house (but over the grass). Like a mini grass covered trench, or
swale, or whatever, but barely indented enough to allow the water to gravity
feed away?