It’s almost impossible to stop residential water runoff, but you can slow it down. These three DIY drainage projects can divert runoff and minimize water damage caused by your neighbor.1. Dig Swales and Build BermsThese landscape features help redirect runoff away from your property. Swales ...
If you're familiar with the lines "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink" from the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," you'll understand that most of this water -- 97 percent of it -- is undrinkable because it's saltwater (see illustration on next page). Only 3 perc...
Overloading usually occurs when water from storm drains or excess water runoff enters the sanitary sewer. Sanitary sewers use water from storm drains to dilute waste. Sanitary sewers can only handle so much, and when storm sewers become overloaded so do sanitary sewers. Thankfully, there are a...
A rain garden acts as a collection area for rainwater, allowing it to soak into the ground rather than divert immediately into the storm water system. It is important to note that a rain garden does not form a pond. Because the goal of a rain garden is to encourage slow seepage of rain...
This shows how drainage takes place along particular paths and borders and how people divert water according to particular strategies. Second, we trace the history of the sociomaterial conditions that shaped these paths, borders, and strategies (cf. Mitchell, 2012), understanding the hill as a ...
If the slope is on your neighbor’s property, talk with them to see if they’ll grow some plants on it. Offer to help pay for it to convince them. 4 Dig a ditch to divert landslides away from your home. Even with other preventative measures, landslides can still happen. In this case...