What is the best solution for getting this water away from my foundation?
I’m a new home owner and because we live near the bottom of a a hill, all of the water from our neighbors upstream is pooling in my yard. This wouldn’t bother me too much except that our yard and concrete patio pad are both sloped towards the house so the water is pooling around the foundation and then what I guess is hydrostatic pressure is causing the window wells to fill with water and then water starts coming into the basement from the windows. I’m somewhat handy but this is out of my realm. Some of the ideas to fix this were:
- Put in a new concrete patio that is sloped in a way that it will take water away from the home. With the volume of water we’re getting during a hard rain, I’m not sure how much of a difference this would make.
- Install another or bigger drain
- Build up the ground along the foundation to create a berm of sorts to direct water away.
Can anyone please give me some guidance on what to do.
Edit: there is a drain in the corner of the yard as seen in the video and the problem we had with it was that the water was pooling nearby but it wasn’t high enough to reach the drain so we had to kind of dig out a bit around it so that water could even enter it. I’m not sure if it’s okay to leave it this way or not.