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[quote=Anonymous]I don't want to be like the crazy Chevy Chase driveway lady, but I'm trying to figure out how to handle this situation. The house next door to ours was knocked down almost a year ago, and they are putting in a house that is literally 10x the size of the original. The original was on a slab, and of course they dug a proper (huge) foundation and basement for the new house.

We are at a significantly lower grade, and ever since the foundation went in next door, we have had a mud pit (and occasional small pond) in a corner of our yard. Nothing like this ever happened in the dozen years we've been here, and it's going to be crazy expensive to mitigate, because we're surrounded by other houses and we'd need pumps and god knows what else to get the water from this corner of the yard to the street. All the companies who have come out to give estimates for the work have said we should call the county, because it seemed obvious that it was an effect of the new build. We were uncomfortable with being the PITA neighbors even before anyone is living there.

But thanks to today's storm I got to see in real time how water is literally pouring out of the retaining wall between our houses and flooding our yard. It's still pouring out even long after the rain stopped, and there's literally a river running from the retaining wall to the back of our yard, with our kids' swing set submerged in at least 6 inches of water. I feel like this tips the balance to file a complaint, but I wondered what DCUM has to say? Anyone ever dealt with anything like this? Is there any possibility that the county (MoCo) will force the builders to divert the water away from our yard? The house is being built by a small-time guy who seems to flip them eventually, and he's only around sporadically.

It has been just such a nightmare living next door to this - workers outside our windows from 645am till after dark, a port-a-potty 3 feet from our driveway (that random people will stop and use), and so on. It's been going on almost a year, often on weekends as well as weekdays, and they're nowhere near finished. I know they have a right to do what they want on their own property but they don't have a right to ruin our backyard... do they?![/quote]

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