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blackcat20 said:
When it rains it pours. Literally. Our rear and side neighbours landscaped last year and their vegetation of choice was concrete. With both properties being slightly higher than us, you can guess where all the excess water ended up 😭

Our backyard has been a squelchy swamp all winter so we bit the bullet and had a pair of plumbers do our drainage over the weekend. Good bye lovely green lawn, we now have a big trench along the back and down the middle, collecting all the excess water and taking it down the storm water system.
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And the biggest pile of dirt (aka clay) that we are currently getting rid of.
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We got just over half into the skip last night, hoping to finish off tonight.

I'm rescuing some of the grass in hopes of patching it up.
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I know you have done a lot of remediation, but does your council have any requirements that stormwater has to be contained to the block it falls on? And then to the drainage system.
 
JessicaTam said:
I know you have done a lot of remediation, but does your council have any requirements that stormwater has to be contained to the block it falls on? And then to the drainage system.
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According to the council it's regulated under the water act and not by council. Basically you can negotiate with neighbours or take it to VCAT.
 
Water (surface or subterranean) always abides by gravity , seeks a path of least resistance (like humans) and has little regard for social niceties like property boundaries.
Residential drainage systems are not designed to collect storm or even redirected flows but there is always a conceptual overland flow path when a development is designed.
It is a bridge too far to expect every property buyer to be able to visualise the likely mature flow paths post development as some folks will raise their yards (pavers/concete etc) and some will unfortunately acquire flow paths that could not be foreseen in design.
It's all a bit of pot luck.
 
tgh said:
Water (surface or subterranean) always abides by gravity , seeks a path of least resistance (like humans) and has little regard for social niceties like property boundaries.
Residential drainage systems are not designed to collect storm or even redirected flows but there is always a conceptual overland flow path when a development is designed.
It is a bridge too far to expect every property buyer to be able to visualise the likely mature flow paths post development as some folks will raise their yards (pavers/concete etc) and some will unfortunately acquire flow paths that could not be foreseen in design.
It's all a bit of pot luck.
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Ou build was done with a number of storm drains in the backyard which worked well until the block behind us was developed. they sit higher and concreted, a landscaper should have foreseen what the result would be.
 
landscaper should have foreseen

Indeed.. and if the offending concrete impedes the natural flow path, the owner is conceptually liable to remediate.
Actually managing to extract remediation from a recalcitrant neighbour can be an art form in itself
 
Oh God yes @tgh, I know all too well..nothing like mediation and then hearings at (State)CAT to get (and keep) everybody in line :rolleyes:. I hope to never have to attend another hearing at QCAT again (I had 13 hearings, more than should have been necessary but I had 2 sets of recalcitrant neighbours)

I'm sooo glad that @blackcat20 didn't have to go through that...
 
tgh said:
Water (surface or subterranean) always abides by gravity , seeks a path of least resistance (like humans) and has little regard for social niceties like property boundaries.
Residential drainage systems are not designed to collect storm or even redirected flows but there is always a conceptual overland flow path when a development is designed.
It is a bridge too far to expect every property buyer to be able to visualise the likely mature flow paths post development as some folks will raise their yards (pavers/concete etc) and some will unfortunately acquire flow paths that could not be foreseen in design.
It's all a bit of pot luck.
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(Water can also flow ‘uphill’). 😊
 
Well, things are looking a bit iffy with Porter Davis going into liquidation. Waiting on our policy number so we can claim our deposit on insurance. But then need to wait and see what the developer is going to do in regards to the project. Being a townhouse we can't just go and find another builder.

We're also dealing with issues with our own home. The shower in the main bathroom developed a leak in the first week of January and I'm still trying to get it sorted. The builder has been our (7 weeks ago!) but not yet organised a plumber apparently....
 
Oh, no. Im sorry to read this BC. Ive been reading on my building forums that PD wasnt taking out insurance on deposits so I hope you have good news about this.
 

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