Drainage Control - Day 1

The work finally starts!
After a false start, work is finally underway to reshape the landscape around the house on both sides to deal with the overabundance of water flowing my way during a rain storm.  It's pretty obvious the previous owner(s) did nothing to maintain a healthy flow of water away from the house, rather apparently they just lived with the continual mess it created.

Creating a swale
They guys I hired started on the left side of the house scraping soil away creating a swale or valley to redirect the water away from the house and carport and down towards the water channel in back.  The dirt from that scraping was piled in the front along the street and will be repurposed to create a low rise berm behind the soon to be created shallow ditch along the road.  The berm will prevent water from cresting the ditch during heavy rains and flowing over the property in wild abandon as has been the norm in the past.

 They checked their progress periodically with a laser to insure a proper slope

The laser is used to check the slope

 The left side is almost done except for some fine tuning.

More pics and info on work performed in the front and right side in my next post.