Field Guide / How-To
How-To
Read Your Yard's Water
Before anyone trenches
Before you pay anyone to trench: walk your yard in a hard rain. Mark where water flows and pools, find the high and low ground, check your downspouts. Half the time the fix is a regrade or a swale — not a French drain. 💧
- Walk the yard during and right after a hard rain.
- Mark where water flows — and where it pools and sits.
- Note the high ground and the low ground.
- Check your downspouts — where are they dumping?
- Design with the water, not against it.
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