Documenting A Couple Of Spots of Standing Water In Our Backyard - May 2019
A few weeks back, we had a few days of very heavy rain. It came down in the morning, afternoon and evening. For like three of four days straight. The ability to work in the yard was almost zero because of how saturated the ground was in the yard and the beds. But that rain event also exposed to me a few areas in the far reaches of our yard that I think are worth documenting here in order to be sure that as I begin to address the far back yard that these spots are giving proper consideration. Due to their location and distance for the existing water mitigation tools (Dry well, etc), I am thinking that the only way to really address some of these is through a combination of improving the soil's ability to absorb water (aeration, de-thatching) and through the changing of the grade. First up is this linear puddle that is maybe twenty feet long and sits between a rough (eventual!) bed and the yard from the trampoline to the neighbor gate on the southside....