Corrugated Drain Terminates in Crawlspace

[CNewhouse]

Any ideas? The other side of this foundation wall is below the garage slab. Certainly looks to me like the footing drain at the right side of the home (bottom of that slope) is draining into the crawlspace. A 4" core was drilled through the poured concrete foundation wall to allow that corrugated pipe through. But why? Seems like a lot of work to create a problem.

 

 

[Marc]

Rainwater needs to be diverted to the street.

[Jerry Simon]

50 minutes ago, Marc said:

Rainwater needs to be diverted to the street.

As ol' WJ used to say, rainwater doesn't *need* anything. . .

[CNewhouse]

13 hours ago, Marc said:

Rainwater needs to be diverted to the street.

Right, I agree. My question is, why would someone take the time to drill through an 8" concrete wall rather than simply routing the piping around the foundation to daylight? Order of operations got wacky and backfilling had already happened?

[Marc]

People do all sorts of things, even things that don't make sense. I stopped wondering about all those crazy things a long time ago. It was making my hair go white.

[Jim Katen]

If the downspout's rain drain were connected to the pipe in the crawlspace, you'd see extensive signs of water just below the end of that pipe. 

I think someone was trying to drain water out from below the garage slab.

[Howard L. Rennie]

I too think so.