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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lycanthrope" data-source="post: 40322" data-attributes="member: 562">My yard is naturally slanted, the whole neighborhood is on the side of a hill, so water flows from one yard to the next, as dictated by gravity. My back yard is fenced, as are those of my neighbors. My garden is within a few feet of the back/downhill side of my yard and even tho there is grass between it and my neighbors yard fence. Evidently when it rains REALLY hard, some of the dirt from my garden ends up in the rocks on their side of the fence. They have landscape rocks around the whole fence in their backyard. Basically Im wondering if anyone knows, in Bismarck, is it my responsibility to keep water from flowing into their yard or is this just something they need to live with? I dont see any dirt in the grass on my side, so this isnt like A LOT of dirt that is being moved by the rain, and its been like this for years and they have never said anything about. If it is my responsibility to put up a blockade to prevent the water from flowing under their fence, what would be the best way to accomplish this? I was thinking about using my edger to dig a couple inch deep trench along the fence and use some sort of metal roof edging or similar to stop the water, else I could put in regular lawn edging and leave it above the ground an inch or two, along the fence... Anyone have other/better ideas?</blockquote>