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Posted on 8/21/16 at 8:26 pm to Jim Rockford
A guy in erath has a 5' levee around his house with a 12" water pump. When the rains came, the 12" pump couldn't keep up, got 5" inside the house, but the water was 3' deep outside the levee, so I guess it sorta worked.
Posted on 8/21/16 at 8:26 pm to MamouTiger65
I don't think it filled up. The water line on the house is about 2 ft higher than the levee he built. I believe it was built a couple ft higher than the flood of '83. It worked in '93, not so much last week.
Posted on 8/21/16 at 8:26 pm to Jim Rockford
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would your neighbors have a cause of action if it made their flooding worse?
i asked this question in the thread about the giant rubber dam thingy
Posted on 8/21/16 at 8:53 pm to Jim Rockford
Watched a guy do this off hwy 16 in FS, everytime it rains his yard is a lake
Posted on 8/21/16 at 8:53 pm to Jim Rockford
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would your neighbors have a cause of action if it made their flooding worse?
Depends on the state and whether the berm impacts any actual streams, drainage ditches, or existing waterways.
A berm will just flood you, however, unless you also have some serious sump pumps to keep it dry and culverts with backflow preventors. Otherwise, you're just f&%king your own property.
Posted on 8/21/16 at 8:55 pm to OweO
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berm
rhythms with sperm.
was that a pornhub search?
Posted on 8/21/16 at 9:01 pm to Jim Rockford
BERM?
Posted on 8/21/16 at 9:08 pm to Jim Rockford
Why pay attention to the berm that's in your neighbors yard when you have a mote in your own?
Moats > berms
Moats > berms
Posted on 8/21/16 at 9:34 pm to BuckeyeFan87
In March flood a guy right down the road from me had a 10 ft high berm around his house. He ended up with 6 ft of water and everyone else around the area had about 2 ft.
Posted on 8/21/16 at 9:36 pm to Jim Rockford
Dude on Elliot Rd close to Tiger Bend has had one for years.....dunno how he made out this time.
Posted on 8/21/16 at 9:36 pm to Jim Rockford
I want to say I pass a house in Des allemans on 90 that has one of these. Looks cool.
Posted on 8/21/16 at 9:46 pm to Jim Rockford
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would your neighbors have a cause of action if it made their flooding worse?
If it's to the point where your berm is keeping water out, I seriously doubt it would displace enough water to flood your neighbor's house.
Posted on 8/21/16 at 9:47 pm to Halftrack
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You can't do that unless you dig an empty hole of equal size elsewhere on your property, not a pond, to offset what you have done.
You realize you can haul dirt in, right?
Posted on 8/21/16 at 10:32 pm to Jim Rockford
A house on Elliot Rd has one. They had sand bags on the driveway during the flood and it looked like it worked.
Posted on 8/21/16 at 11:01 pm to Clark W Griswold
So how big does the pump need to be to keep up with rain. Say a 200x200 area?
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