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You could spend a good chunk of money on extra drainage, but tbh the water table is so high at the moment. I've just stopped a fencing job, as fast as I was digging the holes they were filling up with water, so have abandoned the job for now until it drys out a little.
Sorry, I got sidetracked, I've had clients spend thousands on drainage, but as the water table has risen through the winter their garden still floods. Their maybe some drainage experts than can help on LJN, good luck
if you put drainage in you have to run it somewareand not affect nabouring properties
Does it happen every year? It has been an exceptionally wet period and may simply be something you live with and manage in future. I have noticed around my way (SE Essex) that water is even coming to the surface in areas I havent seen for many years. As has been mentioned, drainage can be a waste of time and money, soakaways just fill with water. A simple french drain can help, but again the water has to go somewhere from there.
Seeing it here also lots of flooding on fields , lawns and footpaths , submerged , never previously so badly flooded .
If there’s any possibility that the water is coming from a leaking water main, a leaking sewer pipe or septic tank, get a sample of the water tested.
If it’s from a water main it will be treated with chemicals that will show up in tests and if it’s sewage it will have identifiers in it.
I have seen people install drainage for what turned out to be a leaking water pipe or sewage.
A previous customer of mine had a flooding problem in there meadow, so they built a large nature pond to drain into. It seemed to do the trick.
All my clients Tuesday and Wednesday clients have just received a mail to cancel me coming - their gardens were flooded last week - this week they will be skating rinks! I'm going to catch up on fruit tree pruning elsewhere.
Its a winter of record rainfall - unless you have the sort of budget that Honey Badger talks of - together with a neighbouring field I would be surprised if there is much you can do.
Over the years many many natural ponds have been filled in around the country, when the water table is this high they will reappear. My recommendation would be to not walk on the garden until it is either frozen solid, or has dried out - and celebrate the fact that it will probably never require watering in the summer :)
Yeah pond liners are not cheap, but if your willing to do the labour you're self it could be cost effective. Or you could line it with clay, which worked for Capability Brown. You Just need a heard of cows to compact it🤔😂