# French Drain Rescue in Baton Rouge: Trenched, Piped and Restored

> Side yards that held water for days after rain, trenched, piped at a 2 percent fall and restored so the lawn shows no scar.

Canonical page: https://hernandezlawnscape.com/recent-projects/french-drain-rescue/

Hernandez Lawnscape (Hernandez Lawnscape LLC) is Baton Rouge's drainage-first landscape company: owner-led, licensed for irrigation, and built on honest advice instead of upsells since 2013. Two locations: 16148 Confederate Ave, Baton Rouge, LA 70817 and 10801 Yarlin St, Denham Springs, LA 70726. Louisiana irrigation contractor license IC #0866. Rated 4.9 stars across 191 Google reviews. Phone (225) 347-9540, Mon to Fri 7am to 7pm, Sat 8am to 3pm, Sun closed.

- Category: Drainage
- Location: Baton Rouge area
- Photographed: 2024 to 2026
- Service: [Drainage Baton Rouge | French Drains and Yard Drainage](https://hernandezlawnscape.com/drainage.md)

## The problem

- Side yards between houses are the classic Baton Rouge low spot: two roofs drain into one strip of grass.
- Gutters dumping at the foundation with nowhere to go.
- Homeowners who had already been quoted a pump they did not need.

## What we built

- Started at the last spot to dry and trenched toward the street.
- Six-inch PVC where the roof volume called for it, perforated pipe with gravel and filter fabric where the lawn itself was the problem.
- Tied the downspouts into the line and put the sod back over the trench.

The three-panel photo is the whole method in one frame: the trench dug beside the HVAC pad, the pipe laid in at a steady fall, and the lawn restored so you cannot tell where the crew was. Gravity does the work. No pump to fail when the power goes out.

The side-yard before-and-after tells the other half of the story. Standing water and broken flagstones became gravel drainage with stepping stones. That yard now dries in hours, not days.

> "We had a downpour this morning and it worked like a charm." (Ron Rouillier, Google review, 200 feet of French drain)

## Contact

- Hernandez Lawnscape, 16148 Confederate Ave, Baton Rouge, LA 70817
- Hernandez Lawnscape Denham Springs, 10801 Yarlin St, Denham Springs, LA 70726
- Phone and text: (225) 347-9540
- Email: info@hernandezlawnscape.com
- Hours: Mon to Fri 7am to 7pm, Sat 8am to 3pm, Sun closed
- Contact page: https://hernandezlawnscape.com/contact-us/