LRS, Drainage Law, statement re natural drainage

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where's the grass?

Anthony Jennings will start

Your neighbor got tired of his property being washed out from your run off. perhaps installing some drains would work better, or maybe you and your neighbor could have worked out a solution together. sounds like you are both a couple of pricks though

ETA: I mean i have no idea about enforcing the law

However, a topographical survey must be noted in that case to show "natural drainage". The property stopped being naturally drained when you built on it and manipulated the land. Where does it run once it gets to his property. Can you snag an image off google earth and show us?

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sounds like you are both a couple of pricks though

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You gathered that from the OP alone?

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. It's called a drainage servitude, and he is blocking it

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This isn't necessarily true. It depends on how much the land changed when the home was built

Unless you have recently illegally increased the amount of flow going on to his property, he must take the flow from your property. You can't do something on your property that increases or decreases flow onto another's property. Drainage must be maintained.

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Obviously, it also depends it is actually a servitude that runs through his backyard, or if it is simply pooling water.

Looks like he lives in the country, so i doubt there is servitude, or at least, an agreed upon servitude that hasn't changed over the years.

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exactly. he needs an actual plat plan for his property or a city servitude map. if op gave me his address i could see it on google earth and probably be able to tell from that.

My house....................16 years

His house.................2 years

Yes there is a 10 ft servitude for UG electrical, phone, sewer, and cable.

I have a flower bed along the fence and he told me to stop watering the bed because it was making his grass "soggy". frick