Thanks all for your replies.
Below is a rough cross-section of the site
First –sticking to KISS principles, I think I will dig the trench; line it with plastic sheeting and fill with rough gravel --making sure I slope it down as much as possible to lower ground.
I was also thinking of...
Our basement flooded multiple times during heavy rains the first year after we bought our house in western Davidson County (Nashville) Tennessee.
The house is roughly T shaped, the basement is under the horizontal cross of the T which is on the down-slope end. Water was ponding behind base of...
