The bad news is that rain measured 1.55 inches in about six hours, much too much too quickly for the ground to simply absorb. A good portion of the soil I put behind some retaining walls and mixed with six cubic feet of peat moss got gullied and washed down hill. I'll be spending a good portion of today trying to rake it up and redoing the stone walls meant to retain the flow.
The middle section seems to have fared the worst.
The top section is where it all begins. Rain off the roof and driveway starts to accumulate here and flows down slope. I tried to make each section relatively flat but....
It may look like the bottom section didn't do too badly but that's because it received all the soil from above. Water is supposed to soak into the soil and drain through the plastic pipe buried below, not flow over the top of the end wall.
I guess I'll have to call Don about gutters this afternoon. For now it's time for the shovels and rakes and implements of destruction to come out. At last it's considerably cooler today than yesterday. (The cold front reduced temperatures by 20-25 degrees.)
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are the drainage pipes clogged?
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