Cutting asphalt to create a drain

[SouthernSky]

I'm resurrecting an old thread because my wife said I needed to get this done. I don't think cutting alone will work anymore because there is at least four different low spots in my driveway lake.

This is the part of the circular driveway in front of my house. Where UPS, FedEx, USPS, etc. all have to stop to bring us packages as well as parking for other visitors. Every time it rains, we have a lake. And with Winter coming we don't want another 6-month lake because it never dried up.

Anyway, one or two drains won't get this done. There is now too many low spots. The two local blacktop companies (one put down the original blacktop) refuse to service and patch it. They only want to do new work (sorta like a lot of plumbers I know).

This is about 30-35' long now and maybe two feet at it's narrowest spot. The deepest part is about 4" in three of the four lowest spots.

Once I drain this, what can I use to fill this? I've tried bags of cold asphalt in potholes and that didn't work as well as whatever the parish/county does.

 

[Doughknob]

If that were mine, I'd do one of 3 things:
1) Not worry about it. To me that water is just not a big deal.....
2) Hire a blacktop company to cut it out and relay new
3) Order a ton of pea gravel to put in the low spot

I'd start with #3 and see how that worked. If too much water ran toward the house, I'd trench the grass area to carry it away.

 

[SouthernSky]

The first two is not an option. 1) My wife. 2) None of the paving companies want the work.

The difficulty with pea gravel is I don't have a good edge as these are large flowing depressions. Those things become bullets with the lawn mower and I have a lot of glass on the front of the house.

I found a product called Perma-Patch that may do the trick. The nearest company that stocks it is two hours away. It's just one idea. But surely someone here has dealt with large depressions in blacktop before and found an easy way to repair it.

 

[Diggin It]

First off between the sinkage and the cracking, it looks like it needs to be removed and repaved anyways. More gravel underneath to build it up so it won't sink again.

Has it ever been sealed? They recommend 5-7 years (which mine is way beyond).

Without knowing your budget, I have one suggestion. Seek out a company that will bore under it and set a pipe and drain fixture in that low spot. Set the boring machine in the woods and bore towards the camera. Let the water flow towards that wooded area.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

This might be a ridiculous statement, not even sure it is possible. But what about DIY chip seal, is that possible? I am not very well versed in the was of the paving world.
The county to the south of me uses it on all of the small to med. sized depressions in the roads to delay the inevitable repaving. It seems to work very well in my opinion.

 

[newbury]

Your in Deville, LA? Not Lower Alabama, not Los Angeles?
What about just cleaning it out and filling it with asphalt millings ?

 

[SouthernSky]

Ideally some kind of liquid fill that would harden in 24 hours would be great as I could pour it in and let it self level. But I’m not sure that would last.

Drains are still likely in the future though I have many depressions now along a 1700’ driveway. This one pictured is the only one I care about for now.

It cost me $18,000 cash about twenty years ago. Sealed it a couple times. To chop it up and start fresh would be prohibitively expensive.
Never let a big ass garbage truck on your new asphalt.

 

[Doughknob]

What would your wife do if you simply said, "You fix it honey."

 

[big bubba]

the safety patrol requires use of eye, ear, & respiratory protection once you decide on a path.
we will be watching ... lots of neighborhood construction going on here, i'm amazed at the lack of any personal protection in masonry (carpentry too) related machine work, see it all the time. best regards,

 

[Doughknob]

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Aquaphalt/5013048889

Lot of work and would take a lot of buckets. But 'cold patch' is the typical homeowner asphalt repair.......