Texas Gardening: Back Yard design help needed, 1 by Dogs_N_Petunias

Dogs_N_Petunias wrote:
Yes, have got to put a pipe and then some type of rock arrangement where it goes underneath to dress that up. The hardest part on us mentally is that there were just minor waterflow problems that were handled by having a very small swale in the grass on the side shown by the last photo. But when the wooded acreage above us was developed into a housing addition, there was no engineering studies or anyone inspecting what they were doing, and that's when things got really bad for us. We could kick ourselves because we could have bought the lot behind us for $12K back when they started the development and could have prevented all this. Hindsight being 20/20. LOL. We have 5 acres and thought that was enough.

This photo is behind us, the house that caused the disaster. Over the years, Larry did make things worse by hauling in tons and tons of crushed limestone for driveway around back side. Once it was leveled and packed, the water from above just swept over it and into our back yard. That all had to be excavated and hauled away to sort of make the driveway a channel to catch the water before it has time to soak into our back yard. Excavation left it looking really crude because the contractor did not have expertise enough to level and finish it off. Will deal with that after the new back yard boundaries are established.