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Pull grates. Check cleanouts. Keep the discharge visible. After the first fat storm, look. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
A pond in the turf is habitat. Drying the path is public-health adjacent, not just cosmetic. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
A yard you cannot walk is not a landscaping mood. It is a missing path. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
Shoot the water, the downspout, the wall, and a wide of the lot. Time-stamp after the storm, then the next afternoon. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
TCEQ-style irrigation rules still apply when you cut a lateral. That portion belongs with a licensed irrigator. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
Storm connections, floodplain work, and easements can require approval. Outdoor drainage is not unregulated because it is not plumbing. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
Dumping into an alley because it is convenient is how you buy a letter from the city. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
Once it crosses the threshold it is your floor. Intercept on the apron. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
A well is a designed bowl next to the house. It needs its own capture and a place to go. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
A plastic pad is not fall. It is a suggestion the water ignores after the first inch. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
Move water. Protect property.
A Drainage Pro Property Water Analysis finds where water comes from, where it collects, and the right way to send it away from the house.