One of the biggest things always is you need to have proper water drainage adjacent to the edges of your home and around your foundation. If you have water running towards your home, you risk have water drain beneath your home, which you do not want to have. This water will affect the foundation in a negative way. Flooding will affect the foundation, will affect the soil, cause erosion, and possibly undermine your foundation to where you will start to have serious issues which will be expensive to correct.
For instance, if you have a flood in your property and you lived on your property for twenty years and it never flooded before and you never had problems with your foundation. Then all of a sudden, it flooded. Excessive water accumulation (ponding water) occurred all over the place where it should not have been such as under the home or around the edges. A really excessive amount for an extended period of time.. Then all of a sudden, you might start to see foundational issues popping up. It is totally unanticipated since you have never had problems; however, these risks you need to be aware of.
Managing surface water runoff on your property is a priority to reduce the risk for moisture penetration into your home. Depending on how your home is built — built into the ground as in a sloped lot creating a partial basement design, full basement designs or having foundation/retaining walls. These are all areas of the building that you want to try and keep water away from as much as possible to reduce the risk for water penetration into your walls and into your home. Also, risking affecting the soil structure around your home.
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