Couple of things. The ditch SHOULD allow water to flow down hill. So first thing to do is clear out the culvert. Most likely the town will call it swale.
Next make sure you maintain the ditch and keep it clean. Make sure leave and grass clippings do no accumulate. They naturally want to end up there do not let them
Lastly call you town/county and tell them to maintain it. It is normal for it to hold water for up to 24-36 hours after a storm, but it should NOT become stagnate water. Before you call them, I would look at your survey and see what easements are on you map, read some local law regarding drainage and easements. Talk to your neighbors that have been there a while, and possibly get some history on drainage in you area. It also helps if multiple neighbors complain.
Disney made sure that all of their water features aren't standing water. Mosquitos hate moving water. They won't lay their eggs there in order to avoid them being washed away. WDW architects and engineers were also meticulous in their drainage when designing and paving pathways. They have massive water processing facilities backstage as well where they can continually cycle the water through filters and redistribute it. Their mosquito management is some of the best in the world.
The county might not be allowed to maintain it except for instances of life safety, that’s how it works in my state when it comes to local access roads.
Very true! We have an underground storm drain in our neighborhood that runs under our ajoined back yard fence line. The neighborhood was built on an old slate dump back in the 40s n 50s. My house is one of the oldest, lower setting ones in the neighborhood. The slate shifted under the drain system and it collapsed a couple years ago and is washing out my and my rear neighbors backyard. We've been doing what we can to keep it fenced off and clear because we can't get the State or County to come out and fix it.
Fortunately water is very predictable, it flows downhill.
First check for debris, if that's clear, then check your grading in that ditch.
From there if your grading is wrong, you can either dig it out properly, or add dirt or rocks where it's low.
It's really that simple
Naw, saw a video of culvert maintenance folks. They get a steel pipe and push it through with a chain attached. Then they tie the chain on a tire and pull it through.
Just looking at the driveway, I would think it has collapsed a bit inside? That few inches drop is a indication maybe the pipe collapsed underneath, or at least narrowed. You may need some folk to come help raise the level of that pad again or tear it out before repairing the culvert pipe.
Culvert looks plugged and the ditch appears to slope upwards towards the culvert. Clean the culvert and slope the ditch deeper from the center to the culvert. If you want grass there then sod would be the best bet after digging so grass gets established quickly and a big rain doesn’t mess it up.
This is the proper answer. I don't know how wide the public right-of-way is on your street so this ditch could be on your property, in which case it'd be your responsibility, or in public ROW in which case it would likely be an issue for the city/county, etc.
There was a lot of good/bad comments here, but you don't need to do a ton of research first, just contact your city/county's street/road maintenance department, explain the issue and see what they say. They could just look up your address and tell you it's on private property and it's your issue, or maybe they'll send a field crew out and you'll get some good local advice if it is your responsibility.
Yeah, OPs city will likely do this in OP'c case, as long as it's in ROW. That ditch is set back pretty far from the road though. If OP has to fix this they'll need to inspect and clean the culvert, if necessary, then they may be able to get away with shooting some elevations and filling in and reseeding the low spot, and hoping rains don't wash away their work before the seedlings take root.
Either someone filled in the drainage ditch over the years, to make the front yard flatter.... or it just built up over time. No matter, the solution is to reform the ditch to flow properly. Now, if the city will allow, you could trench in a drain pipe and bury it so that your yard is flat, but water flows under.
All this being said, there may be issues outside of your control. If the neighbor property does not have a proper drainage ditch, any work you do is going to be for nothing since your water won't flow past your property.
You might also find that the maintenance of the ditch is up to your local government (city, county, township) and they may have to come out and fix the drainage situation all the way down the road. Even though most of our city is on city sewers now, some areas still have drainage ditches... and we pay an annual fee for the maintenance thereof, even though we have none on our property.
Oof, I bet the chain gets put through first using a long stick or something, then tied to the tire, and dragged by a vehicle. Putting it through might be the hardest part, depending on how packed the detritus is. I’d try to find YouTube tutorials or something. I’ve only seen the actual tire-dragging part.
Work with it instead of fighting it. Stop mowing inside the ditch and instead get some water-loving native plants in there, like a “rain garden”. They will drink up the water faster and help it percolate down into the ground. This will also be beneficial for pollinators. Just don’t spend too much time or money on it, since it’s probably owned/managed by your city/township/county as part of the road right-of-way or drainage, so they might come along some day and dig it out. Look at Prairie Moon Nursery for ideas of plant mixes that could go there.
This is a drainage conveyance, not a raingarden. Raingardens are great, but this is supposed to be somewhere water flows through to reach a creek, and OP could even end up liable for drainage issues converting it to a rain garden.
The correct option is to follow up with the road owner for maintenance.
>but this is supposed to be somewhere water flows through to reach a creek
Not necessarily. Where I live, these ditches are simply a means of transporting water to a sewer. (They're mostly found in areas with little to no city infrastructure, so rural and semirural spots.)
>and OP could even end up liable for drainage issues converting it to a rain garden
I am genuinely curious about why you believe this. Water *already* evaporates and is absorbed into the ground around the ditch—even in ditches that are draining properly. Why would a rain garden in that area be in any way problematic?
Rain gardens are dope but these swales are engineered for numerous storm events - so while with the typical storm, a rain garden could work quite well, the 20 year or 100 year event will likely need a lot or all of the volume of the swale in order not to fail.
The correct solution is to restore the ditch or clean the culvert, not plant more things in it.
Planting more things in the ditch would be incorrect and further impede flow during storm events - a heavily vegetated ditch versus and unvegetated ones can see about a factor of 8 different as far as flow capacity is concerned.
However, it would be possible to potentially install a bioswale, wet swale, or infiltration swale. These are all linear features that convey water during high flows, while raingarden is more of a point or node feature.
Okay, I'm obviously out of my depth on this one! I still don't quite get it ("it" being why it's a big deal if we're talking about 20- and 100-year storms), but fortunately, I don't need to. :)
Thank you for taking the time to explain. I'm going to go learn about different types of swales now, and I'm going to check my understanding of a raingarden too. :)
No shame in being out knowledged - I'm literally a civil engineer in a stormwater department.
In this case, a major storm would probably be a one or two year storm, although design storms don't translate great into real events (and their frequency tends to be increasingly often, although it's hard to say how much since design storms are an abstraction). That said, while ditches in large new development are actually engineered with good methods, I suspect an engineer hasn't touched this ditch in a long time.
>No shame in being out knowledged - I'm literally a civil engineer in a stormwater department.
Welp. Please accept my apologies for "um ackshually"-ing you earlier.
>a major storm would probably be a one or two year storm
Ah, okay. Makes more sense to worry about this ditch, then—those are much more frequent (especially with weather patterns shifting due to climate change).
>I suspect an engineer hasn't touched this ditch in a long time
I swear that's the case with every ditch like this I've ever seen. If it's not the ditch itself, it's the culvert under the driveway. It's like they're built and then... that's it.
Our issue had several problems. 1st was a water line leak in front of the house next door so the "ditch" was always wet. 2nd was the culvert under our driveway got clogged with mud & sand when the broken water line was fixed. They pumped out water for 2 weeks. 3rd was the empty lot on the other side that 4wheelers & then construction vehicles had been driving through causing an ever growing dam in the swale. Hubby shoveled out the "dam". A contractor got stuck but they quickly built a temporary driveway with culvert as they should have done to begin with.
The city or county you are in is responsible for the maintenance of the culverts. If you are on a county(or city) road call them. They will have a drainage crew that deals with this regularly. It most likely just needed to be flushed out and they should have a truck for that.
The right of way for the municipality that owns the road extends to the back side of the ditch. Call them and tell them it needs to be ditched and flushed.
(I used to work on one of these crews)
Local town should ether do or give you number of someone come clean the colvert..the pipe under the driveway.
Though may need to have the grade of the ditch fixed so it drains. Over years dirt will settle changing its grade. Especially if particularly big rains.
Are all these pictures from the same side? What does the other side look like?
One part of the driveway looks like it is subsiding and the culvert may be crushed or has sunk, making it the low spot.
STOP, it’s not “your” ditch, where I am at the right of way goes back past the ditch line. If there is a local municipality that maintains the right of way, they’ll need to get that pup flowing. Call and say some shit about west Nile or zyka virus
Put a tire on a rope and pull it through the culvert. It will only work properly if you overlap your task with an annoying voice about calling 311 opposed to 911
To me it appears that area of the lawn is a low point of the culvert. If the water is standing for more than 24 hours, I would genuinely consider making it a rain garden feature. Working with water flow is a *pain in the ass*, particularly with local regulations that can dictate how your flow interacts with neighbors.
Keep it clean and keep the grass/weeds cut very short. This will allow evaporation. If the grade is not optimal I would call whoever maintains this area and get it graded.
That's what a drainage ditch does? Provides a place for the water that can't immediately soak in and needs time to drain? I feel like you're looking for your property to not need a drainage ditch, in which case, you shouldn't have bought the property. That's a perfectly reasonable drainage time and the ditch is working as intended.
Our easements are managed by the developers. Every time the neighborhood complains about standing water in the drains they tell us that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We’re supposed to get ownership of the neighborhood HOA and I’m afraid we’re going to get stuck with regrading the entire neighborhood. Hopefully I move before that happens.
Not quite DIY.....
As an Geotechnical engineer who maintains city infrastructure, my professional assessment would be based on the difference in height between in the driveway concrete, I wouldn't be surprised if the backfill around the culvert has settled and the loading from the driveway has damaged the pipe.
Would recommend running something like a PVC pipe to see if you have an obstruction, if its solid I would suspect its a larger issue than just the pipe being blocked with soil/roots and would need to be excavated and replaced. If you have to pull it out and redo it, I would recommend upsizing the pipe.
if the water is on just one side odds are there is a clog. but if there is water on both sides..... then your area is a low point where the water isn't able to flow down anymore. if this is the case contact your cities maintenance and they will figure out whats needed to get the water to continue down the line.
My guess is the soil has become compacted over time due to years of this happening and thus you don’t have proper percolation. If it can’t be redirected, it may require excavation and installing of a dry well. I’m having one done now for an expansion of a parking lot. It may be the town’s job or it may be yours depending on ordinances and land ownership.
It likely isn’t the best thing to do, but I’d be tempted to get a 5’ drill bit and a strong drill and put some holes in the ground in a few areas and see if it lets the water drain faster. If it does, it means the top soil is simply compacted. Be very careful of utilities, though. That’s why I’d be hesitant, but I’d still be tempted.
There’s no getting around gravity. It has to be downhill the whole way, or water will collect in the uphill parts. You’re going to need to straighten out the grade so there are no bowls to collect water.
Personally, I'd find out from local officials if you could dig that up and lay in a drainage pipe and connect it to the one running under your driveway (obviously, after making sure it's cleaned out very good). Then cover it all back up and plant grass. No more low area in your yard or edge of your driveway to accidentally drop off of when backing up.
It probably needs to be modified with a couple dry wells. This is nothing more than a vertical french drain. You dig a hole maybe 10' x 2' deep and fill with 2-3'' rock. Cover with soil. To make this work, perc tests must be done to find out what kind of soil is underneath. The exact size and depth is done by an expert. It could be that the problem is only that it's too deep and has to be regraded to force the water into the drain. It's basically trapped between two drains.
Couple of things. The ditch SHOULD allow water to flow down hill. So first thing to do is clear out the culvert. Most likely the town will call it swale. Next make sure you maintain the ditch and keep it clean. Make sure leave and grass clippings do no accumulate. They naturally want to end up there do not let them Lastly call you town/county and tell them to maintain it. It is normal for it to hold water for up to 24-36 hours after a storm, but it should NOT become stagnate water. Before you call them, I would look at your survey and see what easements are on you map, read some local law regarding drainage and easements. Talk to your neighbors that have been there a while, and possibly get some history on drainage in you area. It also helps if multiple neighbors complain.
Add to that it is a mosquito breeding haven
Not in 4 hours it won't be. He said it took 4 hours to drain.
Get some chickens.
What are chickens going to do about mosquito larvae? Also, are they going to be free range in the front yard?
My friend has ducks and they eat the mosquito larvae.
All I'm saying is it worked for disneyworld.
Those are talking ducks.
Disney made sure that all of their water features aren't standing water. Mosquitos hate moving water. They won't lay their eggs there in order to avoid them being washed away. WDW architects and engineers were also meticulous in their drainage when designing and paving pathways. They have massive water processing facilities backstage as well where they can continually cycle the water through filters and redistribute it. Their mosquito management is some of the best in the world.
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Beavers and their opinions are always welcome.
Bonus if they're angry
How should I deal with beaver rivals? I’ve been slapping my tail for four hours, but they just won’t go away.
Slap it harder and grimace while showing your two front teeth
lmao
The county might not be allowed to maintain it except for instances of life safety, that’s how it works in my state when it comes to local access roads.
Where I am from mosquitos are a serious health and safety issues.
Buy mosquito dunks in the meanwhile!
Culvert is the pipe under the driveway, the swale is the open, grassed drainage between culverts.
Unclog it...if the water isn't going anywhere it's because it has nowhere to go.
Oldest house on the block usually ends up the lowest.
Looking at how the water lays, it may be that there's a dip in the middle in front of op's property instead of a clog.
Very true! We have an underground storm drain in our neighborhood that runs under our ajoined back yard fence line. The neighborhood was built on an old slate dump back in the 40s n 50s. My house is one of the oldest, lower setting ones in the neighborhood. The slate shifted under the drain system and it collapsed a couple years ago and is washing out my and my rear neighbors backyard. We've been doing what we can to keep it fenced off and clear because we can't get the State or County to come out and fix it.
have a lawyer draft a letter. that's normally enough to get people moving.
I would start by cleaning out the entrance and exit of the culvert. Make sure there is no clog inside. At worse the ditch will need regraded.
Based on the last couple of photos I'd say at least *some* regrading is needed
Looks like the pipe is lifting the concrete, too.
I would lean that way as well. But I woudl start by clearing it first. Years of built up sediment could be causing a burm for the water to not flow.
Fortunately water is very predictable, it flows downhill. First check for debris, if that's clear, then check your grading in that ditch. From there if your grading is wrong, you can either dig it out properly, or add dirt or rocks where it's low. It's really that simple
I’ve been on Reddit long enough, you have to pull a tire through that thing
You gotta feed the chain through *before* it clogs, though, might be too late for tires to fix
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Even easier attach that second tire to a car. Done in 5 seconds tops.
Nah you just gotta put a steel rod through it and use that to pull the chain through.
Naw, saw a video of culvert maintenance folks. They get a steel pipe and push it through with a chain attached. Then they tie the chain on a tire and pull it through.
Call post 10
Just looking at the driveway, I would think it has collapsed a bit inside? That few inches drop is a indication maybe the pipe collapsed underneath, or at least narrowed. You may need some folk to come help raise the level of that pad again or tear it out before repairing the culvert pipe.
Call post 10.
No whirlpools...he probably wouldn't be interested 😆
Look for grass/debris dam and clear out. Remember water flows down hill. Watch videos by the French Drain Man youtube channel. .
Culvert looks plugged and the ditch appears to slope upwards towards the culvert. Clean the culvert and slope the ditch deeper from the center to the culvert. If you want grass there then sod would be the best bet after digging so grass gets established quickly and a big rain doesn’t mess it up.
I dethatched, planted clover, and applied a liquid aerator regularly. The combination broke apart all the clay and let my soil drain.
Clean it out🙄
I'd plant a rain garden and call it a day.
Call the city, because that's their problem
Water flows downhill
If you leave it for long enough some insects will come and drink it all up.
In my area the city is responsible for the bar ditch and drainage. May need to talk to city.
This is the proper answer. I don't know how wide the public right-of-way is on your street so this ditch could be on your property, in which case it'd be your responsibility, or in public ROW in which case it would likely be an issue for the city/county, etc. There was a lot of good/bad comments here, but you don't need to do a ton of research first, just contact your city/county's street/road maintenance department, explain the issue and see what they say. They could just look up your address and tell you it's on private property and it's your issue, or maybe they'll send a field crew out and you'll get some good local advice if it is your responsibility.
The city in the last year came in with equipment and set the grade for water to run off again. Over the years it had changed.
Yeah, OPs city will likely do this in OP'c case, as long as it's in ROW. That ditch is set back pretty far from the road though. If OP has to fix this they'll need to inspect and clean the culvert, if necessary, then they may be able to get away with shooting some elevations and filling in and reseeding the low spot, and hoping rains don't wash away their work before the seedlings take root.
Check out bioswales! Could add some curb appeal and help better manage the water. :)
Either someone filled in the drainage ditch over the years, to make the front yard flatter.... or it just built up over time. No matter, the solution is to reform the ditch to flow properly. Now, if the city will allow, you could trench in a drain pipe and bury it so that your yard is flat, but water flows under. All this being said, there may be issues outside of your control. If the neighbor property does not have a proper drainage ditch, any work you do is going to be for nothing since your water won't flow past your property. You might also find that the maintenance of the ditch is up to your local government (city, county, township) and they may have to come out and fix the drainage situation all the way down the road. Even though most of our city is on city sewers now, some areas still have drainage ditches... and we pay an annual fee for the maintenance thereof, even though we have none on our property.
Drag a tire through it.
How do you start this? I get the concept, but i dont get how you get the chain through first before pulling it back with the tire
Oof, I bet the chain gets put through first using a long stick or something, then tied to the tire, and dragged by a vehicle. Putting it through might be the hardest part, depending on how packed the detritus is. I’d try to find YouTube tutorials or something. I’ve only seen the actual tire-dragging part.
Clean the drain and then create a slope to drain the water. Plant a few plants that will enjoy that water when it arrives.
use a long pole to drag a chain through, tie a tire on and the end of the chain and get in ur 4x4 crack a ultra and give er hell
Clean your drain, all the way through.
looks like you need to go back to school so you can get better grades
Work with it instead of fighting it. Stop mowing inside the ditch and instead get some water-loving native plants in there, like a “rain garden”. They will drink up the water faster and help it percolate down into the ground. This will also be beneficial for pollinators. Just don’t spend too much time or money on it, since it’s probably owned/managed by your city/township/county as part of the road right-of-way or drainage, so they might come along some day and dig it out. Look at Prairie Moon Nursery for ideas of plant mixes that could go there.
This is a drainage conveyance, not a raingarden. Raingardens are great, but this is supposed to be somewhere water flows through to reach a creek, and OP could even end up liable for drainage issues converting it to a rain garden. The correct option is to follow up with the road owner for maintenance.
>but this is supposed to be somewhere water flows through to reach a creek Not necessarily. Where I live, these ditches are simply a means of transporting water to a sewer. (They're mostly found in areas with little to no city infrastructure, so rural and semirural spots.) >and OP could even end up liable for drainage issues converting it to a rain garden I am genuinely curious about why you believe this. Water *already* evaporates and is absorbed into the ground around the ditch—even in ditches that are draining properly. Why would a rain garden in that area be in any way problematic?
Rain gardens are dope but these swales are engineered for numerous storm events - so while with the typical storm, a rain garden could work quite well, the 20 year or 100 year event will likely need a lot or all of the volume of the swale in order not to fail.
The correct solution is to restore the ditch or clean the culvert, not plant more things in it. Planting more things in the ditch would be incorrect and further impede flow during storm events - a heavily vegetated ditch versus and unvegetated ones can see about a factor of 8 different as far as flow capacity is concerned. However, it would be possible to potentially install a bioswale, wet swale, or infiltration swale. These are all linear features that convey water during high flows, while raingarden is more of a point or node feature.
Okay, I'm obviously out of my depth on this one! I still don't quite get it ("it" being why it's a big deal if we're talking about 20- and 100-year storms), but fortunately, I don't need to. :) Thank you for taking the time to explain. I'm going to go learn about different types of swales now, and I'm going to check my understanding of a raingarden too. :)
No shame in being out knowledged - I'm literally a civil engineer in a stormwater department. In this case, a major storm would probably be a one or two year storm, although design storms don't translate great into real events (and their frequency tends to be increasingly often, although it's hard to say how much since design storms are an abstraction). That said, while ditches in large new development are actually engineered with good methods, I suspect an engineer hasn't touched this ditch in a long time.
>No shame in being out knowledged - I'm literally a civil engineer in a stormwater department. Welp. Please accept my apologies for "um ackshually"-ing you earlier. >a major storm would probably be a one or two year storm Ah, okay. Makes more sense to worry about this ditch, then—those are much more frequent (especially with weather patterns shifting due to climate change). >I suspect an engineer hasn't touched this ditch in a long time I swear that's the case with every ditch like this I've ever seen. If it's not the ditch itself, it's the culvert under the driveway. It's like they're built and then... that's it.
Put up a 'no loitering' sign
Or ask it to sit down.
Provide some chairs for it to sit on
Came here to say that.
Nice, take my vote.
Our issue had several problems. 1st was a water line leak in front of the house next door so the "ditch" was always wet. 2nd was the culvert under our driveway got clogged with mud & sand when the broken water line was fixed. They pumped out water for 2 weeks. 3rd was the empty lot on the other side that 4wheelers & then construction vehicles had been driving through causing an ever growing dam in the swale. Hubby shoveled out the "dam". A contractor got stuck but they quickly built a temporary driveway with culvert as they should have done to begin with.
The city or county you are in is responsible for the maintenance of the culverts. If you are on a county(or city) road call them. They will have a drainage crew that deals with this regularly. It most likely just needed to be flushed out and they should have a truck for that. The right of way for the municipality that owns the road extends to the back side of the ditch. Call them and tell them it needs to be ditched and flushed. (I used to work on one of these crews)
Local town should ether do or give you number of someone come clean the colvert..the pipe under the driveway. Though may need to have the grade of the ditch fixed so it drains. Over years dirt will settle changing its grade. Especially if particularly big rains.
For a cheaper option leave it and invest in a couple frogs
Free water Glitch
Are all these pictures from the same side? What does the other side look like? One part of the driveway looks like it is subsiding and the culvert may be crushed or has sunk, making it the low spot.
This is a job for a long bamboo pole. Ream it out.
STOP, it’s not “your” ditch, where I am at the right of way goes back past the ditch line. If there is a local municipality that maintains the right of way, they’ll need to get that pup flowing. Call and say some shit about west Nile or zyka virus
It's poor grading and the town is responsible for fixing it. Good luck getting action from them though.
Put a tire on a rope and pull it through the culvert. It will only work properly if you overlap your task with an annoying voice about calling 311 opposed to 911
Only correct answer here.
To me it appears that area of the lawn is a low point of the culvert. If the water is standing for more than 24 hours, I would genuinely consider making it a rain garden feature. Working with water flow is a *pain in the ass*, particularly with local regulations that can dictate how your flow interacts with neighbors.
Keep it clean and keep the grass/weeds cut very short. This will allow evaporation. If the grade is not optimal I would call whoever maintains this area and get it graded.
Wtf people. Fix the low spot, clean the drain. Not that hard
Get a sump pump and pump it into your neighbors ditch. Easy fix
I'd clean out the culvert and add more dirt and sod where it's low making sure it all still slopes downhill.
Put a pump in it and use the water your lawn
That's what a drainage ditch does? Provides a place for the water that can't immediately soak in and needs time to drain? I feel like you're looking for your property to not need a drainage ditch, in which case, you shouldn't have bought the property. That's a perfectly reasonable drainage time and the ditch is working as intended.
Have you considered installing a drain?
Drag a tire through it
Need some grade done. Your culvert probably needs cleaned. You can use an old tire and chain to pull it through.
Could you install a drain ditch for your drain ditch, perchance?
Call that dude on YouTube
Post 10?
Yea, he’d get that shit moving in no time
Dig out that trench and put down some rock , gravel and sand. Then shade bushes around the edges to keep out the grass.
Fill it all in with sand and dirt
#rocks
Cold on right. Hot on left. Poo flows downhill.
Take a rope, attach one end to a tire and the other end to a truck or van or something. Drag the tire through to clear all the junk out
Plant a willow tree.
Chain, tire, truck
Make a pond!
Our easements are managed by the developers. Every time the neighborhood complains about standing water in the drains they tell us that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We’re supposed to get ownership of the neighborhood HOA and I’m afraid we’re going to get stuck with regrading the entire neighborhood. Hopefully I move before that happens.
Yeah give it a place to sit!
In our area it’s normal for that to take up to 72hr to fully drain due to how flat Florida is.
Put a stable chair near the entrance.
Big straw
Pull the dead body out
Yep. Got a shovel?
Randall knows how to do it, lol [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aOjXjp8vMfk](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aOjXjp8vMfk)
Not quite DIY..... As an Geotechnical engineer who maintains city infrastructure, my professional assessment would be based on the difference in height between in the driveway concrete, I wouldn't be surprised if the backfill around the culvert has settled and the loading from the driveway has damaged the pipe. Would recommend running something like a PVC pipe to see if you have an obstruction, if its solid I would suspect its a larger issue than just the pipe being blocked with soil/roots and would need to be excavated and replaced. If you have to pull it out and redo it, I would recommend upsizing the pipe.
if the water is on just one side odds are there is a clog. but if there is water on both sides..... then your area is a low point where the water isn't able to flow down anymore. if this is the case contact your cities maintenance and they will figure out whats needed to get the water to continue down the line.
Offer it a seat.
Yes, give the water somewhere to go.
Give it a chair. Now its sitting water.
"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you standing water, make a trout farm." - Lao Tzu
My guess is the soil has become compacted over time due to years of this happening and thus you don’t have proper percolation. If it can’t be redirected, it may require excavation and installing of a dry well. I’m having one done now for an expansion of a parking lot. It may be the town’s job or it may be yours depending on ordinances and land ownership. It likely isn’t the best thing to do, but I’d be tempted to get a 5’ drill bit and a strong drill and put some holes in the ground in a few areas and see if it lets the water drain faster. If it does, it means the top soil is simply compacted. Be very careful of utilities, though. That’s why I’d be hesitant, but I’d still be tempted.
Snake the drain
I saw a tiktok of a guy clearing one of these out with a tire, chain and tractor.
There’s no getting around gravity. It has to be downhill the whole way, or water will collect in the uphill parts. You’re going to need to straighten out the grade so there are no bowls to collect water.
Build down
Personally, I'd find out from local officials if you could dig that up and lay in a drainage pipe and connect it to the one running under your driveway (obviously, after making sure it's cleaned out very good). Then cover it all back up and plant grass. No more low area in your yard or edge of your driveway to accidentally drop off of when backing up.
Change the grading to get it to the next culvert. Dig a few deep holes in the lowest point of the ditch fill them to the brim with gravel.
Pull a tire with a chain through it not the rim just tired
It probably needs to be modified with a couple dry wells. This is nothing more than a vertical french drain. You dig a hole maybe 10' x 2' deep and fill with 2-3'' rock. Cover with soil. To make this work, perc tests must be done to find out what kind of soil is underneath. The exact size and depth is done by an expert. It could be that the problem is only that it's too deep and has to be regraded to force the water into the drain. It's basically trapped between two drains.
How do you keep this from being a being ground for mosquitoes?
There prolly an alligator living in it
Maybe get rid of an acre of useless lawn that might soak up some Of the rain