I need help solving a drainage problem.?

Question

My back yard has a very serious drainage problem, I live in a small city and my house is sorounded by other yards we all seem to have an inch or more of standing water for days and days after it rains. due to the closeness of our houses and quite a few trees there is no way to put drainage pipe to the street. the ground is so saturated that we cant use our back yard and the dog has turned everything in to mud. help!! thanks

Answer 1

If you've got the $$, dig up your yard, put a layer of sand, then a layer of gravel, then your topsoil.. good luck

Answer 2

As you know, water likes to seek the lowest spot, this can be bad never soon because it maybe your basement.
As in most basements, drain tile is run outside or inside the foundation which drains it to sump pump.
This you have to create in your backyard. Yes dig under the grass and add tile or coarse rock which dumps into a "dry well such as a 50 gallon drum ". This would have a sump pump to pump the water via black rubber hose over the grass past the house to street exiting on your land near the street.
Hope this gives you some ideas. hoef758

Answer 3

Use a backhoe, dig down near you foundation around the perimeter of the house..

Lay in a 1 foot of gravel at the bottom of the trench, trench to the a low area of the yard. You will likely need a surveyor to come in and shoot grade to find that point.
Run "perforated" drain in the trench. more gravel on top, and bring in truckloads of dirt as need to bring your grade up.

Answer 4

It sounds like all the neighbors need to get together and probably put in a pond (aerate it) if there is room. you could try and landscape a "dry creek" that takes the water to a run off, like a city street. However most municipalities will not allow you to construct storm run off to the sewer system.

Answer 5

If the house has a downspout anywhere on the wet side, you can tap into the drainpipe to which it is attached. Failing that, you'll have to run a line to the street. If you put it adjacent to the house, you will minimize damage to trees.