Hi all
What do I do? We live at the bottom of a hill and up until a couple of months ago had a spare block above us. This block was sloped in such a way that a lot of the water from the blocks above was directed to the road.
Now we have a house which takes up the whole block to the boundaries and no allowance made to allow any run off to be direct to the road. This site has been excavated to such an extent that it looked like a mine site. In doing this excavating they cut through 2 pipes which brought water from the house behind his block (the people behind used to own this block) to the road in front. This water as well as the water from the houses on their upper side now flows through the construction site cutting away the ground and it is like a waterfall, the block has been sloped towards our drain.
We have always received a lot of water from the properties behind us and have build a open drain to take this water to the road. The construction site planned to use our drain for their use also ,no consideration given to what it might have done to our house footings. I feel that they are now planning to send all this water our way, I don't mind sharing but please not the lot.
My question is do I get some legal advice or would it be a waste of time.
regards susi c
What do I do? We live at the bottom of a hill and up until a couple of months ago had a spare block above us. This block was sloped in such a way that a lot of the water from the blocks above was directed to the road.
Now we have a house which takes up the whole block to the boundaries and no allowance made to allow any run off to be direct to the road. This site has been excavated to such an extent that it looked like a mine site. In doing this excavating they cut through 2 pipes which brought water from the house behind his block (the people behind used to own this block) to the road in front. This water as well as the water from the houses on their upper side now flows through the construction site cutting away the ground and it is like a waterfall, the block has been sloped towards our drain.
We have always received a lot of water from the properties behind us and have build a open drain to take this water to the road. The construction site planned to use our drain for their use also ,no consideration given to what it might have done to our house footings. I feel that they are now planning to send all this water our way, I don't mind sharing but please not the lot.
My question is do I get some legal advice or would it be a waste of time.
regards susi c