Is this all folly? Sound reasonable? Is there a better technique that I could employ? Cheaper way to do it? Heavy rain of course would get traped inside the wall (in the backyard) so I would have to pump that out as well. Flood events do not last a long time (3 – 5 hours) and I believe this type of construction would likely do the trick.
I don’t expect that I will be able to completely stop the flood waters from coming in to my backyard – just really slow it down enough to pump faster. Put a pump well on the inside of the wall and slope the backyard towards that pump well. Then I’ll have a 5 foot tall concrete wall poured on top of the footer – this leaves 2 feet above grade which would be more than enough height.īackfill stone on the inside of the wall and solid fill the outside – probably face the wall so that it looks better than poured concrete wall. Put a 16 inch wide footer at the bottom with drain tile on the inside of the wall – where the section of my backyard is. So I am thinking of the following:ĭig a trench 3 feet deep (I’m in cleveland ohio) bewteen the two slopes – the distance is about 100 feet between The wall does not need to be tall and I expect that I will have to put a pump well on the inside of the wall to pump water out during floods and heavy rain. Essentially, there are two slopes at the front corner and the back corner of my house which I could build a wall between (natural elevation changes in my yard). I would like to build a levee wall to keep the water out when the stream over flows. So here is what I am thinking and I wanted opinions…
#Decorative stone flood wall height on house Patch#
This is not the end of the world cause it didn’t come in but my small patch of backyard which is at that elevation did get wrecked. The long and short is that 2 times last year, it rained so hard that the stream in my backyard (that runs through the conservation land) over flowed and came up to my walk out basement back door. I built my house a couple of years ago and eveything is great except the change in the flood elevation over the past decade or so (different than the topographical map of course).
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