I noticed this in the mcdonalds parking lot, so I poked around in it with a stick to try to clear the drainage path.

I came to the conclusion that it has no outlet at all, it’s a permanent stagnant pond. It stinks pretty bad.

  • thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net
    13·
    3 days ago

    Weird. Is that a culvert at the top of the image? It makes sense that runoff from the parking lot would terminate in a drainage ditch, but why it would have sidewalls like that is beyond me. Maybe it was a misunderstanding from the construction crew.

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
      16·
      3 days ago

      Looks to me like this is a “just get it off the parking lot, we don’t care what happens to it after that” drain.

    • Ifeelya@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 days ago

      I bet the pool area was only supposed to have a backstop wall the prevent erosion of the ditch, but the designer didn’t feel like it was necessary to detail it. Seems easy enough to fix with a concrete saw and a sledgehammer though.