A little annoyed

[gubbz]

Time to use your free 30mins with a lawyer.
What a pain in the but for you though, hope it doesn't go as far as your basement.

[fishy steve]

i here you... my problem hasnt gotton that severe, but last summer my township decided to ditch all the roads... well my house is at the bottom of a small hill, then theres a creek right besside me, well they ditched down the hill then stopped at my neighbours driveway skipped mine then ditched after the creek again... so now when we get any heavy rains it flows down the ditch, but as theres no culverts there it just floods into our driveways and slowly drains down to the creek, i dang near got my 4x4 truck stuck in my driveway in the spring, all because the township was to cheap to put 2 culverts in our driveways... i brought it up with the foremen and nothing was ever done, might need to go higher i guess...

they also decided to ditch along a muskeg swamp further down which would flood for a day or too in the spring, well as soon as they ditched it, water came in from the swamp and was flooding onto the road in the middle of august... glad i pay high taxes for these guys to maintain my roads lol

[rackman]

hopefully u get it resolved before the spring thaw

[gubbz]

i brought it up with the foremen and nothing was ever done, might need to go higher i guess...

Make sure you document any communications you have: date, time, person you spoke with (or description of them) and the gist of what was said. They have a responsibility to do what is reasonable, failing that any damage after or caused by lack of reasonable precautions is negligence.

Start with a letter of how things happened as you know it, the solution you'd be happy with and send it by registered letter to the person or office in charge. Wait two weeks for the letter to 'cure' and if they don't respond then that's means they agree to everything you wrote. Then you use that letter in court.

Go get'em and good luck.

[Mattones]

Conservation will be called next. Being as half my property is conservastion. If they didnt go through the right steps I am sure the city will hear from them.

[oaknut]

If theres no drainage easemesnt on your property they cant divert water onto your property that would not normally flow there. Keep at them though. Dont let them get a moments rest. Make every thought going through their heads about you.

[sgb]

Good luck! If at all possible stick it to em!

[patvetzal]

Experience has shown that one cannot stop rainwater from running downhill. Up until the culvert appeared, the road was trying to do just that. Now the culvert lets the water flow as nature intended. You can either try to keep it on the other side of the road, which is ABOVE your property, or find out why it won't drain beyond your property and get the town to solve it from that end.
Either way, they need to do it before your trees die....

[MickeyKnox]

Do NOT plug that culvert! I had the exact same problem with the city. If you plug the culvert YOU are in violation of redirecting water and YOU will be responsible for ANY damage that occurs - REGARDLESS if the city initiated the redirection first.

Contact the city and, as already suggested, keep detailed notes and photographs. Stay on them each day! Make a phone call or send some type of correspondence EVERY DAY. Do not let them breathe. As silly as you may feel contacting and complaining each day, trust me that if you dont they will ignore you. Continually remind them that THEY redirected the water and complain that the water levels are increasing and causing damage.

Stay on them - good luck.

[DGM999]

You have the legal right to force the city to undo the damage they have done, Jaycee is right on regarding changing a water course, natural or man made, if you were to raise the grade of your property and flood your neighbor they could hold you responsible, this is no different.