Water, Water Everywhere

There's a very large hole where my back patio used to be and unfortunately, it has a lot of water in it. Our neighborhood has a lot of drainage issues, some of which have been resolved and some of which haven't. While our lot is unusually flat for our area (why we were so attracted to it in the first place), the slope of the hill behind our property causes a lot of water to sluice over our lot as it heads downhill. We've installed a lot of drainage over the last few years and we already have two sump pumps which have helped a lot.

I was standing center stage on the ampitheater with our contractor looking at the water and we agreed that ignoring the situation wasn't going to help. Since a plumber will be on site tomorrow and since the space is now open, we're going to go ahead and install one, perhaps two, additional sump pumps before the foundation work covers up the area. I think this will solve the problem until we install additional French drains when we do landscaping later (a couple of years later). Now if we could just get our next door neighbors to stop overwatering so much, we'd be golden.

As if that wasn't enough, it started raining at the swim meet this evening. Remember, we have no roof! However, it was just a drizzle and when I got home it looked like everything was dry at our place. A rainstorm wouldn't have been a disaster, but I'm glad we didn't get any rain because we sure don't need any more water on this project.