Hows this happen then?

I live on a hillside and am at the bottom of the hill in 54'our garden drops 6' now the houses up the hill from us all seem to love concrete so when it rain we get their run off,which is not usually a problem because of work over the last few years ours drains well.But because of the dry spell and now this wet interlude I have standing water at the top of the garden,when digging yesterday I have a pond I have dug down to make sure there are no compressed brick ect. but the water will not drain away.
A hole dug 4' deep lower down the garden is still dry?
I cant trench this area and make a soak away because of the slope and the retaining wall above and to left and right sides.It would be awkard to pipe this further down the slope aswell I dont want to risk saturating the borders and veg patch.
Ideas for a cheap solution please.

 

They may not even know the problem they are causing, I should invite your neihbour to come and have a look at your problem. I hope they say yes and you can both sort something out amicably. Cheers, Tony.

 

Sadly Tony that would be half the neighborhood and some its back and front gardens luckily to the front our slope continues down to a nature reserve and brook.I just can not work out why the water table is so high at the top of the garden but ok further down has got to be something to stop the water running away I will just have to have a dig around and find the problem it is by a retaining wall so even though I dug down Iwill just have to dig deeper.

 

I've just re-read your post, I thought it was concrete slurry that was washing down then setting and causing drainage problems. I hope evrything gets sorted. Cheers, Tony.

 

Only solution I can see is as you have said dig down further to see what is the cause. It may be you have an underground water source.

Have you got a sump pump? what happens if you pump it out, does it fill quickly or overnight?

I wish you good luck.

 

you did'nt say if the waterlogged area does affect any buildings?Do you have to walk on the area or use it somehow -where waterlogged soil would be impractical?
If that is not the case, then I would suggest to put plants there which do well in these conditions. There are quite a few very nice specimens -I wouldn't mind to have a bog pit myself if my garden would be big enough.

 

if i bail it out it fills again within a couple of hours approx 20 gallons!

 

I dont have to walk on it but it seems to stink of sour water!
when it was a flower bed it used to kill sweet peas planted close to the wall even in the draught of summer!