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Dealing with water from higher field flooding property

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  • 27-12-2023 4:24pm
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    chris_ie
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    Looking for a bit of advice. We have a few fields up behind the house. We got flooded previously and hired a drainage guy to help fix the problem. He dug a trench in the field to catch the water behind our house and neighbours house (field slopes towards us) as they got flooded too and some of the water from their side came on to ours. Turns out the pipe (6”) this water is diverted to can’t handle all the water and we end up getting it worse and knocking part of our retaining wall down.

    We plan on putting in a larger 18” pipe to take water away but we have doubts that the pipe under the main road we’d be connecting to, 18”, can take the water. So potentially this could flood the road from time to time. It may not lye that much as there is another field lower down on the other side of the road. Farmer on that side has complained about water getting into his field before. So we would avoid flooding our property but move the problem down.

    If the council increase the size of the pipes under the road it would help.

    Have any of you been in this situation? We have to prevent flooding at our house but the water has to go somewhere.



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    rayjdav
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    Best thing you can do is get an engineer out for a site visit.

    Is there any stream that you could divert to? What could be required up slope is a few catch drains, to break up the flow, but they still need to go somewhere, downslope of your house.

    Unless it is Urban, council will probably have no interest tbh.



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