question about water runoff

PatK · 2005-03-21T16:28:46+00:00

Hi all,I have a question that's been bugging me for a while. I live next to a restaurant that has a parking lot that runs parallel to my house. When it rains, the water runs off of the parking lot and into my yard, and then down into my basement. There isn't enough room to slope the ground from the side of my house to the parking lot because of a sidewalk. Do I need to put up a retaining wall? Would a fence work? A ditch? Who's responsibility is it to take care of this problem? I don't have the best relationship with the owner of the restaurant (he refuses to make his employees close the dumpster and trash blows into my yard all the time) So I'm not sure what to do here. Any suggestions?Pat

Mar 21, 2005 21 Replies

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Norminn 21 years ago

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It might be highly profitable for the restaurant owner to make you unhappy enough to move. I've had a good taste of bad neighbors who are politically connected - doesn't make for peaceful living :o)

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PatK 21 years ago

He's actually offered to buy my house. It think he'd like to tear it down and built a bigger parking lot. But he's not willing to pay what my house is worth. I did talk to him today and he said that he has some of the parking berms (not exactly sure what they're called...the things that go in the front of parking spaces to keep car tire from going too far) and said that he could put several of those along the parking lot to keep the water from coming over. If that works, it would be great we'll see.

Pat

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