re: Soggy yard resolutions. French drain? PVC Pipe connected to catch basins?

Ahh water meter, was thinking power. We have a well so no water meter. Thanks man

Sure man, I can always use the help. Thanks!

We had french drains put in at our house and it was well worth it. I would have been willing to do it myself, but I had 20 trees removed the year before and the roots were everywhere. It was about $2000 and those guys earned every bit of it by having to hand dig the trenches.

Ok, i'm about to finally get around to doing this. I know how I'm going to do it, thanks to the help of this thread, but my main question is about buried lines. I'm going to call 811 and have them come out, but someone here mentioned that they'd only check from the meter to the house. My question is specifically related to the image below. My well and where it enters the house is depicted in purple and the electricity and where it enters the house at the meter is in light blue. Now I don't know anything about how they run things. You guys told me the water would come into the house and then be distributed out, which makes sense, I can shut off the water where it enters the house and it shuts everything off, but what I'm most concerned about is the power to the well pump. Is it possible they ran that in a straight line from the meter on the house to the pump? If so, I might have to dig around that. But if that's not typical or even code to how things are run, then it may run off the house corner near the water line. I just don't know, and I realize no one may know without locating it by a properly trained person. But if the 811 people won't do this, then how can I find out if there are lines in the intended drain area (yellow)?

Thanks again!