Any suggestions on this...water flow issue

[Chew]

Our neighbor's property line along several hundred feet of fence line is about 3-4' higher than our property. I guess somewhere along the way the previous owners dug it out to get rid of the slope or whatever.



Anyway....every time it rains we get a ton of sandy loam soil washing down onto our nice parking area and up onto the porch of our building:



After a really good rain we have dirt all the way to the door.

This satellite image shows how the sandy soil washes onto the parking and building areas. It's worse than that usually:




Anyway....I've toyed with the idea of some type of barrier (utility poles, railroad ties, etc. to stop the sand from washing into where we don't want it. But I feel this may not really fix anything and just cause water to wash out underneath the barrier.

It's not a real big deal...just annoying and the wife is on me to fix it.

This angle shows the height differential a little better. It's pretty much like that with some variation along half the length of the property until the fence hits the creek.



I guess I could dig a channel along the length of the problem area (quite a long ways) but not sure I really want to look at that.

TBH always has some good ideas. Thanks.

[1369]

High fence.

According to TBH it keeps the unwanted stuff out and the good stuff in.

[fullsizeaggie]

Google rock berms, straw wattles, silt fence. You have a tractor so rock berms would be fairly easy. Using chicken wire around the rock berms will really help hold together.

Just scrape sand away from berm etc every so often.

[Chew]

Thanks. Will do.

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[fullsizeaggie]

Rock check dams might get you better results on the google.

[redneck82]

Hire a PI to investigate the issue

[Texas Grown]

Channel that water at the base of the slope into the creek. There are lots of ways of doing it. Few stated above. Eventually, the channel will fill with silt as the slope settles more over the years from run-off. If you could get him to clear that growth off the slope, it will settle faster . You could always put trees and/or vegetation on top of some kind of berm along the fence line to deflect the water, to help hold the soil there. Vegetation helps keep soils from being washed away and depleted.

[Tmag]

Shallow ditch is gonna be easiest/cheapest with your tractor, berms or bulkheads would be the next step.

[Texas Grown]

With a ditch full of flowing water, you could have your own redneck water park with a couple of "innertubes".

#thinkofthepossibilities

[Tmag]

With a ditch full of flowing water, you could have your own redneck water park with a couple of "innertubes".

#thinkofthepossibilities

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[Texas Grown]

We did something similar at one of JMAR's B-day parties. Only he used his 4-wheeler and a ski-rope to pull the tube full of inebriated folks down the 300 foot waterhose fed ground-plastic slide we laid down . One pull, the tube turned over and dump everybody . I got vid to prove it. Fun times!

Sorry for the derail. Carry on.

[Tmag]

I have a turning plow to help you get a ditch started if you need it.

[DarrellS]

Dirt berm with a French drain on the uphill side

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[Olphart]

Drainage ditch or building a berm to diver the water and sand is your solution. You could likely push the sand up into a berm and use it to divert further issues.

[Fishy]

I had to build a long berm to stop runoff from flowing across one property. Had originally planned to put railroad ties down first. Piled the dirt up much higher to allow for settling. That solved the problem with very little expense.

It all depends on the volume of water and slope as to which method is better.

Edit: You mentioned digging a channel or ditch. That's something I did with a tractor behind a fence line and piled the dirt up to make a secondary berm. I recall seeing where a sand mining company dug a larger channel like that to divert water from flowing onto their land. They used a dragliner and made a tall berm with the dirt removed. I only dug a shallow channel or ditch where my property was at.