I am new to this group so I am not sure if I am posting this in the right place.
I am hoping that someone here has a solution for me!
I have a garage that gets flooded every spring. Since the garage slopes towards the house (it is attached to the house) we sometimes get the water in the house itself since our house is built below grade.
The open end of the garage is level with the "driveway". The driveway is actually a shared roadway. It is gravel and has been there for so long it has compacted and is just like cement.
I have read solutions such as french drains and trenches but the main time we have problems is when the snow melts but the ground is still frozen. I am assuming that since the ground is still frozen the water can't absorb into the ground and will still run off the surface into my garage.
We are currently diverting the water every spring by hacking a small trench in front of the garage. A permanent trench would just fill up with snow and ice and we would end up hacking it out every spring anyway.
Since the driveway is shared there isn't much we can do accept somehow divert the water away from our house - the question is, how can we do this?
