Water in backyard
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Anonymous
| Previous owner filled a pool but it has standing water after rain. What is the best way to address it? |
Anonymous
The only way to resolve the standing water issue is to excavate the pool, and remove the pool bottom otherwise the standing water will continue to collect, and become a breeding ground for mosquitos. |
Anonymous
What??? Did you know? |
Anonymous
| Removing that much soil and concrete will cost a fortune. If it totally ruins the back yard and the rest of the house is fine, sell it during a dry month and move on. |
Anonymous
| Will adding fill dirt work? The yard is big so there are plenty of room for water to go to other part of the yard. |
Anonymous
Typical DCUM advice. Rip people off and move on. You represent this place well. |
Anonymous
| If you can re- grade it to create a slope that allows the water to run off, that will work. Probably good odds the soil has settled and created a low point there anyway. |
Anonymous
| Can you plant a rain garden there to absorb some of the water? |
Anonymous
| Regrade it. |
Anonymous
| What about hiring excavators to drill holes through the concrete pool, like 20 or so to make it porous for drainage? |
Anonymous
Maybe find someone who drills wells. |
Anonymous
| Lean into it - put the pool back in. |
Anonymous
+1, plant a willow. It will love the water and bust through the concrete, solving both the short and long term problem. |
Anonymous
This is what I was going to suggest. Drain stuff is horrifying to deal with (I haven’t personally, but a friend in my townhouse neighborhood somehow had the neighborhood low spot; it was awful), but if the water is away from your house and an expert says it’ll help, rain garden. https://www.plantvirginianatives.org/what-is-a-rain-garden Perhaps the punching holes in the bottom of the pool would help, too, but maybe it was a wet place even before the pool. |
Anonymous
ohh love this idea! |