Talk:Catch basin

A Catch basin is part of a storm drain system
Originally this "catch basin" article was a separate article; later the text was merged into storm drain, thus the redirect. Here is the current text from storm drain:


 * Many of these small objects are caught by the catchbasin, or sump, which lies immediately below the grating. Water from the top of the catchbasin drains into the sewer proper. The catchbasin serves much the same function as the "trap" in household wastewater plumbing in trapping objects.

Water that enters a storm drain system may eventually be piped to a retention pond or elsewhere (e.g. directly to a receiving stream), but a catch basin is located at the entrance (inlet) to the storm drain system, not the eventual system outlet. Moreau1 (talk) 02:35, 7 December 2009 (UTC)