Ok how about Mount Gay rum, is that local? I know it is good.
The anti run off code baffles me, I live in a 3rd world country and there are some interesing codes and even more interesting code enforcement. What happens here is a do it and see approach, there is near 95% success rate with that method, us expats tend to error the other way and go ask permission, permits for code violations cost a little more than permits for non-permitable things but it almost always works out.
Here is a guess, a suck well is the escapable answer to the problem, it would need to be a very large hole to handle a major rain, so the suck well must be just a compliance remedy.
