i have a spring that surfaces in my yard. I have dug french drain/pvc drainage ditches to get rid of the water that had been accruing in my back yard for years
I cleaned up the spring area and put in some river rock and sand to make it more decorative instead of the overgrown craphole it used to be. i still have some wet spots in my lawn, i suspect a few more underground springs, but I am not sure what type of expert I should bring in to consult for help to see if i can make any improvements
I am at the end of my know how, it used to be way worse, anytime i brought a contractor back there to see if they had any ideas, they would disappear on me. One guy even left his measuring wheel behind and never came back to collect it, i left multiple messages, even claiming i wouldn't mention the swamp when he came back to collect it. I eventually gave it away to my neighbor.
anyway, what type of person should i be looking for to help me, hydrologist, landscaper, rocket scientist? any advice would be helpful
also, I added a picture of the spring area, we used to get frogs, any idea if they will return now that all the overgrown vegetation is gone? spring flows from left and top of picture to the right.
What I think could help would be to research the "bog" plants. I think planting these in the area would help soak up the water and would also look nice. I have an area I am looking to do some planting in. It is a low area where water feeds into my pond and it seems to stay wet a lot. I would like to help dry this area out and make it look nicer. This planting would also help your frogs come back.
I have a similar issue currently, although it's a much larger area. I was concerned about the dreaded "Wetlands" designation.I contacted our companies law firm which has a permitting / environmental lawyer. He advised me to contact an environmental engineer to take a look at it to see what advice he would have. The engineer was very helpful but he took one look at it and said he is 99% sure that it would be considered a wetland. He did give me a contact at the Army Corps of Engineers that he said would be helpful and also be happy if I contacted them before I did anything. The engineer also didn't charge me anything for coming out and taking a look. Now I am on the fence on contacting the Corps. I was advised that I might only need a simple national permit or it might get much more involved for what I want to do.
BTW.. The biggest issue I have come up with concerning a wetland is adding fill, which is a big no no.
