Back Yard Regrading, Drainage, and Sod
Located in the Providence Plantation area of Charlotte
Problem:This client's back yard was shaped like a bowl. The house is at the bottom of a hill, right before a large area creek, and has been plagued by years of drainage problems and frustrations with solutions that didn't work. A previous national contractor installed two drain boxes in the yard that weren't working, and the yard stayed swampy and shady. The customer had a lot of trouble keeping grass.
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Solution:We re-graded the yard, raising the soil by the porch and under the playground, and grading the land so that it drains properly. We trucked in a few tons of organic screened topsoil for this. We dug ditches that drained the property at the back corners, and turned them into beautiful features of the landscape with river slicks from Pennsylvania. The drainage creek on the right goes underground through a filter and white PVC pipe for the last 20 feet. A ton of large rip rap stone was added to the creek bed where each drainage creek empties into the large neighborhood creek. We also built a small platform bridge under the monkey bars and a small planter box in each creek. The half of the yard that was re-graded was then sodded with tall fescue.
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