Ok, I know we'd better check with the city on this but I thought I'd ask anyway. My old house, like many old houses, has a rainleader pipe in which the storm gutter was originally fed, leading to the sewer. Like a lot of places, this practice was banned in the 1970s-80s (or so) and a separate city system installed for sewer and storm water. The gutter was then removed from the rainleader pipe and the pipe was capped. Now we are designing a new patio and would like to cut it down and bury it. It is ugly and useless, as far as we can tell. Right now it sticks up above ground about 4". Why can't it be cut to ground level, recapped, and buried under the new brick patio?