New construction and not familiar with seeing swales ,etc.
Neighbor tells me this is a flood area and there are underground drains from the home to this drainage area all over the place.
Downspouts,driveway drain,sump,etc,
Buyer is asking if the pit needs to be this large as it takes up half the yard.
What would be recommended here ?
Who or what kind of specialist gets called for something like this ?
The neighbor claims he is getting flooded out more since construction along the driveway side.
Looks like I will be calling out the grade under the rear deck.
I would not get involved with saying any thing .
frequently there is more then one yard that drains in to this low area.
This would not be the home for me .
Wayne not that I am an expert in this but that is wide enough to allow a child to climb into. For this reason we have bars in front of all culverts like this now.
In FL, those are called a retention pond / basin. They work very well for storm runoff, but that culvert needs a debris guard (grating) on it to keep the critters out.
That looks like a detention basin, designed to temporarily hold surface runoff in a flood prone area. The small outlet pipe throttles down the amount of water that enters the drainage system. My question is how did this poor property owner get talked into putting this on his property? By the size of it he is taking on more water than his property generates. These detention basins are common in commercial building site work when large areas are paved (parking lots), which increases surface runoff. If this serves multiple properties, it’s my guess the city engineer had something to do with this and the property owner was compensated for it.
You seem on target.
The neighbor was not primarily English speaking but did convey something about it can’t be removed.
The buyer is purchasing after the fact on this just completed home.
