Re: [gardeners] Re: more rain to come...
Jane Burdekin (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Tue, 21 Sep 1999 05:34:41 -0600
Penny,
Good luck with your digging and draining, and with the rain to come. It
has even been raining here in Colorado, not a normal thing. I have to get
going on bringing in my outdoor plants, it is getting down to 40 degrees
here at night.
Jane
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> From: penny x stamm <pennyx1@Juno.com>
> To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
> Subject: [gardeners] Re: more rain to come...
> Date: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 1:10 AM
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> .
> No, BSK, the pipe is standard "clay drainage pipe". When
> there is heavy rain, it backs up and fills the cellar drain well,
> then floods over an 8" sill right into the workshop. Ugghh...
>
> This has only been happening for the past two years, since we
> sealed off one of the pipes buried under the big back lawn
> because our neighbor was screaming about our water going in
> to his basement. No question but that we must undo this... The
> civil law says that no one may prevent water from traveling down
> from a higher elevation onto one's property. Measures have to be
> taken to make it workable, however. We may have to dig a trench
> the whole 126 ft across the back of the property, to spread out the
> water as it reaches there in a storm. And because of the fine
> plantings 3 ft in from that stone wall, it would have to be dug by
> hand. Not a jolly thought.
>
> Penny, NY zone 6
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