Kali,

One or two of the previous answers to your posts mentioned plants,
trees and landscaping; so I did not respond before. However, after
reading the response from the City, in which is mentioned the
compacted soils, I thought I'd chip in a thought I had earlier.

That is, to plant grasses (native if possible) that will put down
deep, deep roots. Deep meaning many feet, not many inches. And
plant them starting as far upland as possible at down toward your
house.

Will this work, will it have any impact? I don't know myself by
experience, but I have heard stories and heard specialists explain
how the roots of plants, if left in a hard packed soil, will
gradually loosen the soil. (This may assume, I'm not sure, that dry
periods will force the plants to dig the roots deep year after
year.) And, it's been explained to me that the soil loosened by the
roots, will accept much more water than shallow rooted soil.

If you already have much of such type of plants in the area...well,
no help here then, but I bet you don't - not to the extent that you
could have it.

Also, depending on the plants, this is not a quick fix, but overall
taking maybe two-three years. Consult your botanist.

--- In stormwaterpro@yahoogroups.com, "kalibailey11"
<kalivanagas@...> wrote:
>
> Here is what the city said about the water problems around our
house:
>
> "I was out in your area on other business yesterday and looked at
the drainage problems
> you mentioned.
>