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Note - those pictures were taken this afternoon, but it looked exactly the same first thing this morning..
My backyard slopes away from the house gently, which is where we had a backyard put in (sod with river rock border and plants in the rocks), and 10' past that it goes downhill pretty steep. My point is, the area drains well, it has slope, and shouldn't be holding water.
Except it is in this area, badly. I heard a slosh stepping on the mulch and scooped some away to reveal several inches of water sitting in the mulch area (for a swingset yet to be installed), and the sod around this area is completely sopping and there's water pooling around the sprinkler head. This was a few hours after the sprinklers had gone off, 7:30am or so.
Then I just went back out at 2pm and nothing has changed at all. No water has left the area, it's just stagnant with no drainage.
I live in a dry climate and have pretty dense-packed dirt here. What can be done to remedy this? The landscaper drilled a few holes in the rubber timbers that border the mulch, but that's not fixing anything. Ideas?
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