One of the rather significant things we did not know about in this process was that of an Engineering Firm. Our Architect, Tony, did of course, but it was new to us. Seems that you need a full engineering survey to help determine things as complex as water run off and percolation rates.
To put it simply, they need to calculate how much of the ground are covering because of the fact that your house will be preventing the soil form absorbing precipitation. Pretty big deal, in our case, as our house is covering a significant portion of our lot. Really, they have to account for every drop of water that is re-directed by our home, and then provide a way to make sure it stays on our lot and not pushed off into the street or a neighboring lot.
Based on some suggestions, we went out to Momenee Associates and Houtman Engineering.
We'll see how much this runs us.
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