Every time we have heavy rainfall, our yard floods like crazy. We have two sump pumps, a drainage system, and use sandbags. It still gets into the house.

Today I learned that according to the neighbors, the bird sanctuary behind our house has set up their drainage so that it runs right off to our yard.

I’ve posted a couple videos to YouTube to show what’s going on, linked in the first comment below.

So I have a couple of questions:

1. What kind of professional do I call about figuring out a plan for mitigating floods?

2. Should I call a lawyer about this bird sanctuary nonsense?

3. Is there another subreddit I should go to that could help with this? I didn’t know where else to turn

Thank you all in advance!!!!

UPDATE: A tree that belongs to said sanctuary just fell into my yard and broke my fence. So that’s cool.

UPDATE #2: Just had an emergency meeting with my two next door neighbors, one of whom had been fighting this issue with the county and the township for the past 10 years. They are still currently in contact and even hired an engineer to look into it this spring (which was delayed with covid) I’ll be throwing my voice in there too, but without help from a lawyer, let’s be real - nothing will get done. Today was the worst rainfall they’ve seen in YEARS so hopefully some mild mitigation like digging a trench should help. Time to brush up on my shovel skills. Eventually I might call a lawyer but I don’t know if I’m willing to spend that kind of money.