How to fix water pooling between yards?
It's raining right now and water is pooling between the houses, ruining the dirt I put down. In the winter it melts and freezes and kills the grass. Do I have to put a ton of soil there to build it up?
May 15th, 2019 8:54 pm
May 16th, 2019 4:45 am
May 16th, 2019 5:50 am
Do not build it up. It is there for a purpose to drain water away from your house to the street.
May 16th, 2019 10:34 am
May be salts from the water but in the winter it turns into a huge ice chunk.theguyz wrote: ↑ water and snow will not kill grass, you have something else killing grass from winter ( aka salts/sand/pet unrine/etc. in snow )
The pooling is occuring as its lowest point in yards and water is draining to it, the soil ground is not absorbing the water fast enough, or water table is too high. If you add soil to level out ground you may end up with pooling by house and possible leaking in basement.
A solution maybe to run a Solid Big O pipe from where the deepest part of hole is to by the sideway on a slop, this will act as a drain, but as well will cause water to flow onto sidewalk/driveways.
May 16th, 2019 11:01 am
May 16th, 2019 1:11 pm
May 16th, 2019 1:20 pm
I don't mean to flatten it out. Keep the 'valley' but just build it higher so it goes all the way to the road and doesn't stop halfway.
May 16th, 2019 1:21 pm
I'll look into that. Thankssmitty9999 wrote: ↑ French drain with catch basins and a pop up emitter
May 16th, 2019 1:36 pm
May 16th, 2019 8:28 pm
Right. Lower the swale at the front so that the water drains to the front and doesn't pool between the houses. That is how the builder was supposed to grade it.
May 16th, 2019 9:39 pm
Never thought of that. That might make more sense but could lead to low grass at curb?Dealmaker1945 wrote: ↑ Right. Lower the swale at the front so that the water drains to the front and doesn't pool between the houses. That is how the builder was supposed to grade it.
May 16th, 2019 11:12 pm
Sound advice, and in the future you may be glad it is this way. Read about problems here with water into basements and sump pumps suck.
May 17th, 2019 9:47 am
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