re: Landscape help - drainage problems

This is about as simple a DIY project as there is. mark the lowest points. Purchase drains for those areas. Connect via corrugated pipe. Run pipe downhill to ditch. Its that simple. You don't need survey equipment you can eyeball the run. If the pipe doesn't go straight downhill it will still work. All the pipe will be lower (underground)than the standing water. A small rise in the pipe will only cause water to stand in the pipe, not above ground. The 6 inch drains are cheap (<10.00) and 100 ft of corrugated pipe is around 65.00. Shovel and a lot of digging. If you want, rent a trencher for 100.00 and the line will be dug in an hour.