Who is responsible for drainage problems in new development?

Question

The area behind my house has recently been developed into a new neighborhood of custom homes. Because I am downhill from this development, the water rushes through my yard causing damage, debris, and threatening to flood my house. Who is responsible: me, the builders, or the land developer. If the developer, how do I find out who it is?

Answer 1

The developer is the one who had to send the plans to the building commission. Flooding should have been part of getting permits for the development to be built. Call the Planning Commission or your local permit office.

Answer 2

it depends if you want to build your house in the wetlands you could build a rain garden you could build raised beds out of boulders if you look toward the top from left to right make a wall of boulders plant some areas of wildflowers bushes and trees that will cut down on some of the erosion you can pound some rerod into the ground and put some strawbales down plants with big roots help do you have a barren grass land or no mow areas habitat can only do so much includeing cleaning up some of the pollution it cant do it all maybee your luck some of there nice soil there loosing might be a gift coming into your yard but at the top and bottom of your property you can git bolders and maybee you can stop some of that hogwash know someone with big energy or a semi and a big crane you can also lay logs on there side stack a few high and fill the inside with soil check out some solutions at the library why lose soil when you might be able to keep some of it shouldnt they have some sort of erosion barrier maybee they might be willing to give you some of there boulders as there waste and they may just want to git rid of it but you might have an oportunity so make some raised beds with stacked stone or rip rap or a stone garden thats the best i can come up with you might be able to channel the water into your rain garden and when it overfills you would have like a pond for habitat and then a little waterfall feature i know you got some hyperactive missbehaiving kids that need a little something to do so good luck maybee this helped and mulch holds water to so call the mulch dudes maybee they will deliver it will definately keep you out of trouble no matter what you decide to do birds fly for thousands of miles to git to fresh water and when the flowers take off you will be happy belive me the colors are so intense and try native plants not ornamentals and git a hold of the usda soil conservation district the sell trees in the spring im helping global warming here please help it there

Answer 3

IT IS THE DEVELOPER