carpenter383
Platinum Member
I'm having problems with a "dry branch" creek that goes through my back yard. We got quite a bit of rain today and the small creek was gushing with water, it does this a few times a year during heavy rains. It washes ditches out of my yard, washes the gravel off the driveway and floods everything with all kinds of debrie..... Today I walked the ravine all the way to where it starts. I found that it basically starts out in a low spot in a feild then grows and grows from many smaller runoff ditches feeding into it as it gets closer to my place. The whole thing is basically in a large ravine until right before my back yard so this will make it almost impossibleto use heavy equiptment.......I've included some pics form where it wreaks havoc
to where it starts
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Any ideas on how to control the water/slow it down? I'm wondering about putting a restriction in the waterflow upstream of my back yard. My concern with this is the water might just wash out around the said restriction.........What can I do to slow the water down? I have a dk40 with fel and a box blade to work the accessible areas and a long handled shovel for the rest
......TIA
![Yard 053.jpg Yard 053.jpg](https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/data/attachments/124/124610-846179be29468a00e8d7564116b3526c.jpg)
![Yard 063.jpg Yard 063.jpg](https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/data/attachments/124/124620-895a55d10f8149397306be60494421ba.jpg)
![Yard 066.jpg Yard 066.jpg](https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/data/attachments/124/124638-d6ac95dcdc6ba0a8106392031b833f02.jpg)
![Yard 069.jpg Yard 069.jpg](https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/data/attachments/124/124652-832c638b2dbcb9f4be9052b4eb24df6a.jpg)
Any ideas on how to control the water/slow it down? I'm wondering about putting a restriction in the waterflow upstream of my back yard. My concern with this is the water might just wash out around the said restriction.........What can I do to slow the water down? I have a dk40 with fel and a box blade to work the accessible areas and a long handled shovel for the rest