I have lived on this place for over 20 years now. The area behind my shop and house is the low end of my property. I have always had minor issues with drainage in this area, but it took a large rain, like over 5 inches at least for any issues to occur. I have been able to control it with a few drainage ditches.
Last year, the place next to me changed hands and is now being turned into a rodeo bull breeding operation. He has cleared all vegetation off the property with the exction of some oak trees. There is no grass left at all. He also took out a decent size stock pond that was close to the fence line that slowed most of the water coming onto my property. The spill way of that tank would come on to my property, but was no issue. He also built a large pond at the bottom of his property which has diverted water that used to settle there onto my property when it overflows. I now have water draining onto my property where it has never drained before.
The last rain we got was a little over 2 inches and we got hammered with run off from his place . My pond was pretty low and filled up very quickly and has been running over for several weeks now.
I talked with him about it and he says there is not much he can do about where the water runs. Has anyone had any issues like this before? I've read a little on the laws concerning this and I feel he is in the wrong with changing the water flow. Even though there is a natural drainage into our pond, when he took out the existing pond on his property, it made a huge difference on the water flow. Is there anyone at the county level I can speak with about it?
Last year, the place next to me changed hands and is now being turned into a rodeo bull breeding operation. He has cleared all vegetation off the property with the exction of some oak trees. There is no grass left at all. He also took out a decent size stock pond that was close to the fence line that slowed most of the water coming onto my property. The spill way of that tank would come on to my property, but was no issue. He also built a large pond at the bottom of his property which has diverted water that used to settle there onto my property when it overflows. I now have water draining onto my property where it has never drained before.
The last rain we got was a little over 2 inches and we got hammered with run off from his place . My pond was pretty low and filled up very quickly and has been running over for several weeks now.
I talked with him about it and he says there is not much he can do about where the water runs. Has anyone had any issues like this before? I've read a little on the laws concerning this and I feel he is in the wrong with changing the water flow. Even though there is a natural drainage into our pond, when he took out the existing pond on his property, it made a huge difference on the water flow. Is there anyone at the county level I can speak with about it?
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