When It rains for days the whole ground is saturated to the surface. It really doesn't matter if you shoot the water off 5 ft from your foundation or not its resting on wet ground that is saturated dwn there. Especially when It rains like that at high tide!
And you hit the nail on the head. There are so many people in that area , there is a shortage of homes and its booming. Anyone that can build homes is and as fast as they can. You moved there so your one of the 34 new people in the area to move there. There are homes and subdivisions on James and Johns Islands that use to grow tomatoes and watermelons when I was growing up just 20 25 years ago. Charleston Metro Area has doubled in size since then. How is the traffic on Maybank Now a days? has to be awfull, it was way back then and with only one brige over to west Ashley , or do they have a huge or multiple bridges across the Stono river. going to look at a satellite image to see now.
I have only been on John's Island for a little over a year now, but there are only 2 ways onto the island...A bridge on Main Rd between Johns Island and West Ashley, and the bridge from James Island to Johns Island on Maybank. Maybank traffic can be a real nightmare. I always tell our visitors to avoid getting here at rush hour, but they always seem to get here at that time anyway :dance1:. They will usually call and say that they are 15 minutes away...I tell them, see you in 30 minutes, you will see what I mean when you get to the bridge.
At least the view from that bridge is so nice. My wife and I love this area.
Maybank is currently under construction to add a second lane for traffic coming onto Johns Island. At least they have the foresight to build the bridge wide enough to support this back when they built it. The entrance to the island is also getting a bike trail and a pedestrian trail. Should really be something when it is all said and done. And of course, they are keeping most of the old, giant Live Oaks intact. Those trees were the first thing we noticed when coming to look for houses on Johns Island.
The expansion in this area is a little scary to be honest...and I suppose I am part of the problem! I hope that Charleston County stops fumbling this expansion though and works hard to get the infrastructure improvements in place. I could go on all day on this subject...
On a septic note....the installer should finish the first phase of this project today, which is installing the third bed and connecting it to the existing system. Hopefully, this will provide relief for the upcoming rain we have. Since I work from home, I have been monitoring the project. There were a lot of topsoil and roots left where the third bed is going. This was outside the area of the original septic system. The installer mucked all this out and is currently trucking it away. The soil changed color significantly at the point he stopped digging. This soil was a grayish color sand. The fill the installer brought in is extremely clean sand. I grabbed a sample of it.
After this third bed is installed, he is going on vacation (as am I it turns out...). In two weeks he will be back to muck out the whole area past the first drain bed and re-install that part of the system.
Judging by what has come out of the ground so far, and what is going back in...I am hopeful that we will be fixed up in a few weeks.
The side yard and back yard are truly a disaster from the equipment, which is exactly what I expected. It is likely going to get real ugly after 3" of rain that is in the forecast.
Thanks all,
Joe
At least the stuck bridges is a thing of the past! There is a third way onto the island but that doesn't do you any good to go toward Charleston as it is the bridge to Wadmalaw island which one onto that island your dead ended into it at that point, no other way off Wadmalaw, it is totally surrounded by marsh and river and no other exit/entrance except onto Johns island then onto Johns. Wadmalaw when I was growing up as I am sure most still is was extremely rural, still strong in the Gullah accent as much of the native johns island population, at least what's left of it still is. The road ends on Wadmalaw in Rockville where they have the Rockville Regatta every year, or at least they use too.