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Drainage easement question please help?
I have lived on my property for 8 months. The family next door just moved in.
There is a drainagle easement that runs across my properties and the propery of the family next door.
On the far side of their property there was a huge hole (6 feet deep and 12 feet wide) and a the water went from the ditch into a huge pipe that ran under the road.
The next door people got the builder to bury pipe for their easement and moved the huge hole and pipe entrance to my property.
The reason we did not buy the house next door was this huge hole the property had.. now they moved it to my property.
The builder also regraded the ditch in the easement that the city has and tore up my sod about 3 feet the wide the length of my yard.. removed alot of the dirt from my property.
I have spoken to the city planner and he says the work was not approved.
What do I do? is this legal form him to do just to sell a house?
I feel very screwed.
Thank you
2 Answers
- wizjpLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
AS long as what they did was inside the drainage easement, it would have been legal with zoning permission. Without it...not so much. Same with the dirt. If it were moved inside the easement, fine; othewise, they have damaged your porperty, and are subject to possible claim for damages.
I'd work with zoning and planning and see if you can't pressure him to fix the damages.
- Vindaloo99Lv 51 decade ago
A very similar thing happened to me. I informed the builder of the other house and developer of the subdividsion that the condition on my lot was fine before I bought the lot, while my house was being built, and after I moved in, and that's how I expected it to stay. They re-modified the neighbor's yard to keep the water and the ditches where I wanted them to stay. The concept is that natural flow of water from one property to another is unavoidable, but that nobody is allowed to divert the flow of water onto another person's property. And they definitely weren't authorized to modify your property without your permission. Write a letter to that effect to all parties including the City, and give the builder a deadline to get started on the modification and the landscape repair, just like I did. Say that you relied on the facts in the drainage plan before you bought the house, that they modified it to your detriment even if just cosmetically, and that it must be put back that way. Yes, now my neighbor has an awkward drainage situation which they have tried to resolve in other ways, but that's just tough.