Soil type also plays a big role in how water drainage on your property will perform. There are many different types of soil and combinations of soil. Soil Survey reports can be obtained for any property. A soil survey will give you a soils map and inherent information on soil characteristics and how it relates to various topics including drainage and building foundations.
Soil testing can be also done on your property to test not only for fertility but also pesticides, herbicides, and heavy metals, etc. What is the type of soil you have on your property? Is it a well- or fast-draining, sandy-type soil? Is it a slower-draining, clayish type soil? Is it a loamy type of soil? Or a combination thereof? Soils all are situated in varying degrees, with different soil types, and often combinations of the soil types on one lot. All these soil types perform differently. One of the things to take a look at is to see how previous is the soil on your property and getting a feel for if it is going to be a relatively quick-draining soil or not? Or is it going to hold the water and be much slower draining into the ground? Hence, being more likely to build up faster and increase the risk for flooding?
Soil percolation test can also be done to give at least a baseline as to how fast soil will drain thru the ground in the upper layers.
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