Neighbor added a pool and now my yard floods. We are cool so I’m trying not to go any kind of legal route, what size pipe will I need for a French drain of some sort? We will burry it and go through his yard through the curb right by the street drain.
by Key-Requirement4662
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Dayum!
Looks like it was buy one get one free
The must be a blocked catchbasin somewhere, does the water sit like this for more than a day?
“Above ground pool”
Is the fence holding it in? Ultimately just need to give it a place to go, but it seems like you’re just storing it right now?
4”. Get two basins and prep properly, a coil of under drain won’t be crazy to bed and backfill. Sticks are better but pricey. Fittings etc.
eta – new information. Sorry, OP. The “engineers” who drew the neighbor’s plans up, and whoever signed that permit should lose their jobs.
This looks like new development , where they just plow over the landscape and trees/clear-cutting. Then they don’t do a great job of grading. And the soil is now super poor because it’s just been plowed over. And you have no root systems or trees to absorb. Water.
Welcome to unchecked development.
ya got your boat drop off already!
I would seek legal remedy. This is going to cost you big time when it was a problem brought on by your neighbor’s faulty grading.
Turn it into a decorative fountain that shoots the water back to your neighbors place.
Is there a swale that this is supposed to drain to?
French drain? You’re gonna need like a 12 inch culver.
Talk to somebody in local government. It can be illegal to divert rain runoff to another property. You need to put the heat on before he sells the property. Time’s a-wastin’.
He likely clogged a drainage easement. You might want to look at the community drainage easements in the civil drainage plans. If the natural grading had stormwater run through his property and now it cannot, it will cause structural issues for surrounding homes.
If your neighbour can afford an in ground pool, they can afford to grade the ground properly. Or not, who knows. Either way it’s a direct result of their project and is their responsibility to remedy. Did they have permit(s) for this pool? I would assume proper grading would be covered by said permit(s).
Build a dock and get a nice fishing rig. Embrace it
Drainage ? why that looks more like beachfront property
Diving board
Lakeside property 👌🏼
raise your yard by 50 feet and pee on him from height
If I have a milkshake and you have a milkshake… but my straw dumps all the water from the whole town into your back yard…..
Seems drainage ditches at property lines were not taken in consideration during housing development
But you already have a boat launch
Just plant some native bamboo.
I think you need a demolitions expert here to determine where the charges should be placed to open an outlet for the water through your neighbor’s yard.
Question: Why does your water flow into their lot and to the street, instead of flowing from your backyard to your frontyard and to the street in front of your house?
Check out Apple drains on YouTube. You can sign up for video consultation for about $50 with Chuck. He will offer solutions. You need to figure out where to discharge the water. If it is uphill, you need catch basins, corrugated pipes leading to a sump pit, and a sump pump to pump the water uphill. If the discharge is downhill, you can use catch basins and corrugated pipes sloped downhill to the discharge location.
What your neighbor and his sketchy contractor did here is completely unacceptable. He is destroying your property’s value. This isn’t on you–make him fix the gigantic mess he created RIGHT NOW.
I would suggest looking at quotes for a dock!
LMAO
French drain for sure jk lol
Big ups to you for being a cool neighbor, but I’d be furious lol
A River Runs Through It
I always wanted a “natural lagoon” pool. Stock it like a pond.
For real though this looks insane good luck with everything. Hope you can figure it out without too much hassle. Godspeed!
Plant trees to drink the water. Without trees, it’ll sit for a lot longer. I recommend a variety in your zone that does better in wet conditions. As an Arborist in Michigan, I would recommend a Dawn Redwood or Bald Cypress if you have enough room.
It’s low tide at the boat ramp
I would dig a trench in the back with 2 trenches going along the sides of your house graded to the street. Have it grade very slightly (water barely needs a grade to move through pipe) outward from the center of the back trench so it all ends up in the street. Use the 4 inch perforated tripe wall stuff they sell at Home Depot/Lowe’s, cover the back trench with river rock and just fill in the side trenches with the same dirt you dug out.
I say this knowing nothing about your street or if it’s even possible, but I just did something similar and other than the time for labor it was pretty cheap doing it myself.
Considering the water touches multiple fences it seems likely the issue is impacting more than just you.
I get trying to work with the guy especially if you’re trying to remain friendly neighbors for years to come but you’ve given him plenty of time and now you’re moving. It’s probably time to take legal action and force him to remedy this on his end.
You now have what they call a detention pond in your backyard. Versus a retention pond. Detention pond stores water temporarily until it dries out. Retention pond hold some water nearly all the time. For the planet, that’s probably a good thing you have going on. As a homeowner it is not. The passive aggressive way to correct it is to get a heavy duty pump and some old fire protection hose. Just pump it out from the backyard and to your neighbor’s front yard. Since it’s not a problem for him he should be okay with it.
This isn’t just a trench drain fix. Get a lawyer, you’re planning on moving anyways so no point in trying to be the nice guy when your neighbor is not being very neighborly and avoiding the issue that he and his pool installer created.
DRAINAGE??
Sail a paper boat.
Because its fun and free.
And then go back to worrying
And you thought you had to pay extra for waterfront property. Build a small dock off the end of the patio …charge the neighborhood kids to go fishing.
Not sure there’s anything you can do from a legal basis. I’m thinking it’s the developer who failed to grade the properties correctly or added any type of storm drainage. Looks like a new neighborhood …house behind looks vacant …probably has the same size pond in its yard as well. Might want you get your city or county building folks in on this. That’s where I’d be heading with these pics. Take shots of every house that has been affected with the standing water.
Good luck …
This is on your neighbor. Call code enforcement and discuss the issue with them. They’ll point you in the right direction and how to possibly get it fixed.
If they don’t you’ll need to request the subdivision drainage be reviewed and see what your neighbors changed that’s causing the drainage issues and then hold them responsible for fixing it.
If you plan on selling it has to be fixed as it’s devaluing your property. Get the authorities involved and let them be the bad guys. Simply say you contacted them for advice.
Good luck with it.
There’s no way a French drain will solve that. Maybe a 12” pipe and proper slope. That’s a lot of water.
Is this Louisiana? It sure looks like it.
I’d throw some top water. See what’s hitting.