Parking lots have a tremendous amount of responsibility to your property’s drainage performance. The lot are captures your rainwater, your environmental debris like leaves and soils. The lot also collects your visitors debris that they bring with them such as salts, soils, and other sediments. Don’t forget about the jerks who can’t find a convenient enough trash can and drop their coffee cups, cigarette butts, and many other ridiculous refuse items.

Catch basins, also known as storm drains or curb inlets, are openings for storm drain systems that catch debris and sediments through a grate or sump. Of course, getting sticks, trash, and whatever might be floating down the street in a drainage system is bad news. That’s where catch basins come in: they stop larger sediment from entering the main system, and instead let it settle in the basin’s sump area. The solution for this is to have a vacuum pumper truck suck and clean the inside of the basin out. This should done at a minimum every 24 months to keep them functioning properly.