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In the past, I worked with a rural village that had some problems with low-levels of flooding when heavy rains came. Nothing too serious, but water would get in the houses and cause property damage and possibly pose a health risk. I believe the village was built in an area prone to flooding, but conditions were made worse by building of homes and a huge church that inhibited some of the natural surface water flow and caused water to pool up easily in some places.

Are there any relatively simple solutions to keep water from pooling on the surface? I was thinking about digging pits and filling them with gravel or stones where water tends to pool to speed up infiltration into the soil, but no idea if that would actually help.

In the past, I worked with a rural village that had some problems with low-levels of flooding when heavy rains came. Nothing too serious, but water would get in the houses and cause property damage and possibly pose a health risk. I believe the village was built in an area prone to flooding, but conditions were made worse by building of homes and a huge church that inhibited some of the natural surface water flow and caused water to pool up easily in some places.

Are there any relatively simple solutions to keep water from pooling on the surface? I was thinking about digging pits and filling them with gravel or stones where water tends to pool to speed up infiltration into the soil, but no idea if that would actually help.