Tropical rain control

This past week we got a local worker, Ruben, to install some 3 inch pipe to handle the major rains that happen when we are not here. As you can see from the first picture, the houses are built with a little cement spout, and the rain just pours out of there during tropical rain. Now that our courtyards, both front and back, are walled, that rain has nowhere to go and has been digging a trench in the front.

So Ruben put in plastic pipe which is cemented into the trough, then comes down, goes along the wall, and feeds out to the road in the front. I am putting holes in the length of pipe that goes along the ground, as I am putting a flower bed there. In the back, the pipe was once again inserted into the roof trough, brought along the width of the house, and comes down to end just before the drain that goes to the sewer. I want to capture the rain we get during this season, and you will see the pipe stops about 2 feet above the drain, so I can put my rain barrel there and use that water for plants as well. Water is a precious commodity here, so don't want to waste any!!!