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Water standing in yard (I rent)
Comments (1)Hi I'm from St. Bernard but now live in north MS. I really don't have a good answer for you about the drainage but will share my experience with a wet yard up here. First look at the way the yard drains. Sometimes the ground is uneven which was one problem with us here, and I shoveled and leveled it some, not a really big project (I weigh about 111 so it wasn't heavy work), and that helped alot. Also sometimes there is a fence or blocked up area that has to be cleared of debris. That was the case for us too. I then used raised beds, not made of timbers but just mounded up and dug small trenches as borders around the beds and so the plants stayed much drier and the water that didn't drain sort of ran in the trenches. If I am picturing a flooded yard I don't think most plants would absorb that much water but maybe a tree like river birch would. One other thing, when we get a huge rain like this week 4 inches in 3 days, that is just a one or two day yard drenching but then it does drain. Hope this made some sense or gave you some hope. To truly solve a drainage problem might need a landscape contractor. And if you rent then perhaps the landlord/lady will fix it. Laurie...See MoreBack Yard Water Feature Beginnings
Comments (84)Well thank y'all for that. BAMA - I've been wondering if we'd ever see you post again - missing you a lot. I forgot to mention that the flowers standing on the right are a gift from BAMA. They cover the electric cord nicely. Yeah, CALAM - my back yard is very small. Ever since I put the path of rocks in to the grotto, Toby does his business on it every day. It's as if he is kneeling at the altar. Bratty dawg! The blower takes care of that little cleaning problem - no breaking him of that habit....See MoreSoggy backyard with grade/drainage issues
Comments (26)If your main issue is standing water after it rains, you may want to consider the EGRP® system. It allows rainwater to travel straight into the ground, preventing any standing water from building up. Through the use of the EGRP® system, infiltration is enhanced by moving water more effectively and efficiently through the soil matrix and into the water table. Additionally, the EGRP® system helps re-balance groundwater conditions by establishing new ways water can move to, and through, the soil. To learn more about it, you may wish to search Parjana Distribution on Google and you will find a number of articles on how the EGRP® system was able to solve standing water issues. Please visit parjanadistribution.com to find out more information or feel free to get in contact with us by calling (855) 727-5262 or send an email to us at sales@parjanadistribution.com....See MoreNeed help with constantly damp backyard.
Comments (11)As a general guide to creating a proper swale, you'll need to consider where its high point (that I asked you about earlier) is. Let's call it the HP. (If it's behind the shed, you'll still need to consider that grade should slope downhill, away from the building, in all directions. To make this happen, you may need to lower the HP. If not, fine.) From the Hp, following the drainage path, you'll need to make sure that the drainage path has width (for carrying capacit) and is continuously descending at least 3" for every 10' of run. This will happen running in both directions ... to the right of the HP and to the left of it. If, hypothetically, you made the path 2' wide, you could visualize this as if it was a 2' wide grass walkway inset and wrapping abound your yard. As this path continuous it will pass your house (on the right and on the left) and eventually meet yard that also slopes in the general drainage direction, or possibly a drainage swale/ditch near the street, or the street itself, where water will be carried farther away from your property without the continuation of a special drainage path (swale.) Concurrent with the drainage path, grade surrounding and running alongside it, will slope toward the path so that water from other parts of your yard run toward the drainage path. Naturally, you would not want an engineered-looking, flat grass path rigidly surrounding your yard and standing out as oddly different from the surrounding yard. While respecting the grade of the path itself, you would reshape (grade) the soil surrounding and alongside it so that all blends gracefully. In addition, you would route the path such that its location acknowledges features of the yard; it might curve to miss a tree for example, so as not to disturb its roots, creating additional work and expense....See Moreken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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