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My first posting. Three yrs ago my neighbor asked if he could PVC his rained out yard water to our fence. "no problem, I liked the idea of a dry-wet bed, stream in my yard", Now, never getting the (dry bed) made, we alternatively PVC'd it to the other side of the yard- in back on our own property and it drains into other neighbors yard. Is this legal? Tks for info in advance!
I don't know if rules are different in different locations, but here you're not allowed to make any changes to drainage that would result in more of your water flowing onto your neighbor's property. If you live uphill of them and nature takes it there that's fine, but if you change the grading or add in drainage which results in your water draining onto their property you can get in big trouble. Even with permission you probably ought to be careful about doing things like that since the neighbors may sell someday and the new neighbors may not appreciate your water dumping onto their property, but I would absolutely not do this without permission.
Thanks for responses! Our downhill side neighbors are aware of the water being drained from our property, on our own property, but still ends up in their yard. They are the last house on the bottom of the hill where they have a stream. We've discussed them piping the water or creating stream to stream. This was built befor neighbors moved in. It was a tree filled bird sanctuary. No one knew it was constantly flooded from all houses above. So, your responses are good, thanks but it scares me, we do like and have worked with our new neighbors. My husbands hard work to dry up our yard is not so sure it's in wrong doing.. Thanks again... Great site!!
Natural drainage onto a downhill neighbor's property isn't a problem, I got the impression from your original post that you had changed the drainage somehow and were routing water onto their property and that's where you can get in trouble. But if it rolls down the hill like nature intended then you can't get in trouble for it.
