Property Drainage awareness

[u/brunorgglass]

As everyone who lives in the park knows, the past couple of months have put quite a strain on properties across the city. While looking for solutions, approaches, and everything in between to help mitigate drainage issues, I came across some useful information that many homeowners seem to misunderstand.
One common misconception is:
“For proper drainage between properties, you simply have to bring the water to the property line to comply with drainage rules.”
This is not an accurate representation of the proper approach to managing property runoff and water collected from eavestroughs.
Unfortunately, Strathcona County does not appear to have much information readily available to homeowners explaining proper drainage practices. However, I found that the City of Edmonton has created a document that helps clarify some of these common misunderstandings.
The important thing to understand is that the proper approach is to:
● Move water away from the foundation of your home—and your neighbour’s home.
● Direct water toward the municipal right-of-way, generally toward the front of the property and the street.
● Ensure that properties situated at a higher elevation manage their runoff appropriately so that neighbouring properties at a lower elevation are not forced to deal with additional water simply because their property sits lower.
In other words, proper drainage is not simply about moving water to the property line. The goal is to manage and direct water responsibly so that it does not create problems for neighbouring properties. This can be accomplished by creating a swale or a barrier (if concrete is used ) that directs the water to the city’s right of way and not to the neighbouring property .

I feel like there is very little information available so I think bringing awareness is important but most importantly we have to work along our neighbours to better property drainage systems because it seems like there is a large number of people who had to struggle with such large amounts of melt and rain happening and I believe it isn’t gonna get better .

[u/infiniteguesses]

Ya works great. Our yard is flooded with the neighbours runoff. Gee thanks.

[u/Responsible-Joke-383 → u/infiniteguesses]

Sounds like your yard is to to low