Standing Water In Kensington MD Yard

Are you tired of dealing with standing water in your Kensington, MD yard? If so, call East Coast Landscape Design. We’re a locally owned company that’s been in the business since 1979, and in that time, we’ve seen just about every type of drainage issue there is.

Getting to the root cause of the matter is of critical importance, so when you call us, the first thing we’ll do is to send our Senior Geotechnical Engineer to your property to survey it and assess the situation.

His findings will serve as the basis for the estimate we give you before any work begins, and assuming you’re comfortable with our approach, and it fits your budget, we can begin.

So what kinds of things can cause you to have standing water in your Kensington, MD yard? The answers may surprise you. There are a lot more of them than you might suspect.

The most common issue is that your existing drainage solution has a problem. For instance, if you’ve got a French drain on your property, it may have become clogged or damaged in some way that’s preventing it from diverting water the way it once did.

The other common causes for standing water in your Kensington, MD yard have to do with changes that have made water follow a different course across your property. Remember that water always takes the path of least resistance, and it always flows downhill.

What kinds of changes are we talking about?

It could be anything from a DIY landscaping project (retaining walls, raised beds, and the like), or a recently installed privacy fence. Any of these things can easily block the path that diverted water followed in the path, leading to standing water in your Kensington, MD yard.

On the solutions side of things, there are really only two options to consider. One is better water diversion. A more robust drainage system, regrading parts of your lawn to better control the flow of water, and the like.

The other is selective landscaping that helps to change the characteristics of the soil in the long term, and the addition of plants that require a lot of water to “drink” the excess, making it unnecessary to divert it.

Why does all this matter?

Two reasons. First, if you’ve got water that’s seeping into your basement or collecting near your home, it can cause serious damage that will be very expensive to repair. It’s always much cheaper to divert the water away from the home than let the problem fester.

Second, even if the water is collecting at a safe distance from your house, it’s still rendering a portion of your lawn unusable. Why live with that? You paid good money for your home and property, get the most out of it!

Whatever your drainage or landscaping needs are, East Coast Landscape Design can help. Give us a call today. You’ll be very glad you did!