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Is your back yard higher than the street? In the New Orleans area the backyards usually are. That's been a requirement for new construction for a while in many jurisdictions. We get heavy rains and the streets are used as supplements to the storm sewers to temporarily hold and direct the...

That means it is probably sandy or you probably have a low spot for it to drain too. Maybe both. If it were clay it shouldn't drain that quickly. What you can do will depend on the terrain and the soil types. My first thought is to create a swale, a wide gently sloping ditch so gentle you...