Hi all,
My house sits at the end of a 60 foot long driveway, made of concrete. My neighbours property on one side is some four feet higher. My other neighbours house is the same level as mine, however his concrete drive is some 2 inches higher than my garden/soil boundary. To complicate matters, my driveway runs downhill from my house to a mid-point, then runs uphill to exit onto the road. My problems is therefore about rainwater/drainage and raising the level of my drive/garden. I should say that my garden is solid clay.
When it rains, the water from the pavement, which runs downhill going across the front of my drive, runs into my driveway and floods it. Last night we had a thunder storm which lasted for 30 minutes. At the end, my garden and drive were flooded to knee height. I have two grids in the concrete drive, one either side and a manhole cover situated towards the exit onto the road. I opened up the man hole cover to allow some of the water to escape. I then used a dirty water pump (30’000 litres per hour) it took 90 minutes to clear the garden of the water, with me, wife and 2 kids also using buckets at the same time.
- Do the council have any responsibility in terms of the surface water from the highway flooding my property?
- How do I prevent water from the road/pavement entering my driveway ?
- I’d like to level my drive way/gardeen, so that it sloped downwards to the road, but that would mean raising it by 8 inches at the lowest point, is this feasible and if so how do I do it?
I've uploaded 3 photos to give you an idea of the problem. One shows the rate at which water poured in from the pavement, the other two are to give you an idea of the depth. I took these just after the rain started. By the time the rain ended, the level of water was 18 inches deep.
Thanks in advance
My house sits at the end of a 60 foot long driveway, made of concrete. My neighbours property on one side is some four feet higher. My other neighbours house is the same level as mine, however his concrete drive is some 2 inches higher than my garden/soil boundary. To complicate matters, my driveway runs downhill from my house to a mid-point, then runs uphill to exit onto the road. My problems is therefore about rainwater/drainage and raising the level of my drive/garden. I should say that my garden is solid clay.
When it rains, the water from the pavement, which runs downhill going across the front of my drive, runs into my driveway and floods it. Last night we had a thunder storm which lasted for 30 minutes. At the end, my garden and drive were flooded to knee height. I have two grids in the concrete drive, one either side and a manhole cover situated towards the exit onto the road. I opened up the man hole cover to allow some of the water to escape. I then used a dirty water pump (30’000 litres per hour) it took 90 minutes to clear the garden of the water, with me, wife and 2 kids also using buckets at the same time.
- Do the council have any responsibility in terms of the surface water from the highway flooding my property?
- How do I prevent water from the road/pavement entering my driveway ?
- I’d like to level my drive way/gardeen, so that it sloped downwards to the road, but that would mean raising it by 8 inches at the lowest point, is this feasible and if so how do I do it?
I've uploaded 3 photos to give you an idea of the problem. One shows the rate at which water poured in from the pavement, the other two are to give you an idea of the depth. I took these just after the rain started. By the time the rain ended, the level of water was 18 inches deep.
Thanks in advance
