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At Mom & Dad's house they have a gutter drain that goes underground from the outside wall of the house for about 100'. It isn't very deep due to the ground sloping away from the house. We put an outside waterproof electric box next to it, with a GFI. We then fished one of those roof/gutter heaters thru it, and have it switched with a lighted indicator switch from inside the house. If they see ice building up (it drops from the downspout to a catch basin right there at the house, then continues) the plan is to turn on the heater. In the past 2 years they haven't had to do that. Their sump pump also dumps into that catch basin, then goes to the drain pipe. While theirs doesn't run as frequently as yours, it's been running a lot this winter. We didn't bury that drain pipe below the frost line. It's a 4" corregated black drain pipe, and it terminates in a pop-up surface diffuser once it gets to the bottom of the hill. The cable runs to the 90� fitting that is at the end of the pipe. The end of the drain is only 6"-8" below grade.