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Z>/l/9-ccc- <br />Hardship <br />The topography of the area cause my house to be downhill from my neighbors, that <br />plus my neighbors use of hardcover cause my house to be flooded in the event of heavy <br />rain. The runoff from their roofs and hardcover can overwhelm any defense I have <br />constructed. This addition will allow me to divert runoff further onto my yard and allow <br />my west lawn to deal with runoff. <br />3. Due to the almost flat pitch of the roof on the west end of my house, {less than 2 <br />inches in a foot} Ice dams are too easily formed in the winter. Causing the roof to leak <br />inside. In addition with the slow rate of runoff due to the low pitch, during heavy rains <br />the roof can leak caused by the ponding effect of the starter row of shingles. <br />G. Erosion caused by the heavy runoff from neighbors has in the past Washed out my <br />entryway steps, 4 times! The new addition will replace those entry way steps thus <br />eliminating those potentially dangerous outside stairs completely, thus ending any the <br />possiblity of a lawsuit, caused by slippery or washed out steps. <br />Previous attempts at correcting the existing hardship. <br />The first attempt at correction of preventing heavy rainfall from flooding the ground <br />floor of my home involved the removal of any hardcover in an attempt to absorb the <br />runoff from my neighbors. That FAILED because the amount of water was too large for <br />the amount of land available. <br />The second attempt at diverting runoff involved recontouring the land to divert runoff <br />further downhill. Due to topography involved that FAILED, because the area involved <br />remained too flat to effectively drain water away from the area consequentially a heavy <br />rainfall resulted in flooding of the ground floor of my house, with the resulting disgusting <br />mess to clean up. <br />The third attempt at a nonstructural correction FAILED, that was to dig a diverter <br />trench into the landscape. The trench simply filled up and the resulting overflow did the <br />damage, ariy increase in size of the trench was at best a delaying action rather then a true <br />solution. A tiench of sufficient size to contain all of the run off from my neighbor would <br />have been unsightly as well as dangerous. <br />The fourth attempt at a nonstructural correction FAILED when a swale was added to <br />divert the water further downhill. A large enough swale to divert the runoff caused my <br />lawn mower to scalp the lawn until it no longer acted as a swale. The scalped lawn just <br />speeded up erosion <br />Others attempts at resolving some of the other issues include reroofing the house, and 4 <br />times replacing the steps.. <br />The only solution that will provide relief is something that includes a dam running East <br />to West long enough to divert the runoff at least 16 feet to the West and allow the <br />increase slope at that point to take runoff and naturally disperse it onto the West lawn. <br />That dam would be formed when the foundation was poured for the new addition. <br />Don’t you love elegant solutions? An eyesore could be created in an attempt to resolve <br />the flooding problem. Some equally ugly solution such as rolled roofing could be used to <br />resolve the roof drainage problem, and the regular wash out of stairs could be resolved <br />with a large cast concrete stairway. Ugly? Absolutely but needed! <br />Or you can accept a elegant solution that reduces hard cover and reduces structure, A