Single Family

7. Healthy Living Environment

7.12 Water Drainage

Mandatory

Provide surface drainage of water away from windows, walls, and foundations.

Minnesota Overlay

In addition to everything detailed under this item in the national Green Communities Criteria, add:

Where a high water table is anticipated or observed, or has been documented in the soil boring report, or where specifically recommended by the Geotechnical Engineer in the required geotechnical/soil boring report, provide subsurface drain tile or other drainage system in strict accordance with the Geotechnical Engineer's recommendations to divert underground water away from the structure.

Important Considerations

Codes and Regulations

This criterion is already required by Minnesota code

International Residential Code
R406.2 CONCRETE AND MASONRY FOUNDATION WATERPROOFING
In areas where a high water table or other severe soil-water conditions are known to exist, exterior foundation walls that retain earth and enclose interior spaces and floors below grade shall be waterproofed from the top of the footing to the finished grade.

R406.3
Covers Dampproofing for wood foundations.

Specifications

Many specification section, including:

07 10 00 (07100)	Dampproofing and Waterproofing
31 20 00 (02300)	Earth Moving (Earth Work)

The information above refers to the Construction Specification Institute's (CSI) MasterFormat. The numbers listed above refer to some of the most relevant but not all of the possible MasterFormat sections related to this strategy. The 6-digit numbers refer to the newer 2004 MasterFormat edition. Numbers in parenthesis refer to the older 1995 edition.

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