LOL, no such thing this time of here in Michigan. The area is pretty dry in the summer and I'm planning to put 2-3 ft of fill dirt to raise the barn up. Also going to reroute some drainage around the barn and out to daylight. I've owned this property for about 14 years and I've been watching how the water flows, where it sits, etc. I've "cleaned out" a few ditches that go into the county drain. Luckily, we're within a half mile of the start of the drain and it's all farmland. If they ever develop it upstream with apartments/subdivision, etc. there could be an issue. But all new developments need a detention basin on their property to slow the water release into the natural watercourse. Should be ok (in my lifetime :lol: )
Don't want to have happen what happened to my BIL. He was building a pole barn next to a creek (county drain) some years back. Contractor raised it up about 18". He asked the guy about it and the contractor said "oh, that's plenty". Lo and behold we got a "once in a century" rain that year when the barn was up but no concrete floor yet. The creek rose, flooded the area about 100' each side of it, ran through the barn and washed about 75 yds of sand out into his pasture. :oops: All he could do was build berms around it to keep the water from flowing right through it next time.
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