Neighbor across the street floods regularly. His property is much lower than ours and is also right next to City of Houston drainage easements. Basically, he's low and flood water drains right into and around his property. Thankfully, our house has never flooded.
Someone recently bought this property and demo'd the existing house to prepare for new construction. Obviously, they need to build the property up to prevent it from flooding in the future. My question is what, if anything, can be done to make sure the new construction doesn't send that flood water back our way? I'm afraid if they build the whole lot up higher than ours, that's what would happen. Does the city of Houston account for this at all in their engineering/permitting/etc.? I'd rather try to deal with it now, if possible, than after it's all done and we flood.
Any thoughts/ideas?
Someone recently bought this property and demo'd the existing house to prepare for new construction. Obviously, they need to build the property up to prevent it from flooding in the future. My question is what, if anything, can be done to make sure the new construction doesn't send that flood water back our way? I'm afraid if they build the whole lot up higher than ours, that's what would happen. Does the city of Houston account for this at all in their engineering/permitting/etc.? I'd rather try to deal with it now, if possible, than after it's all done and we flood.
Any thoughts/ideas?