On a slope the drain can run downhill by gravity, and the uphill wall is where it is needed.
Basements are more common in Forsyth than south of the Fall Line, partly because the rolling terrain gives builders the fall to work with. That same fall is an advantage when it comes to draining one.
The load is concentrated. A house cut into a slope has an uphill wall holding back saturated Piedmont clay while the downhill side stays comparatively dry, so the drain run usually needs to cover the uphill side and the corners either end of it.
Where the land falls away, the discharge runs downhill by gravity with no pump and nothing to power. We pair that with interception uphill where the flow path calls for it, since removing water before it reaches the wall costs less than removing it afterward.
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