Oh shoot, Karen, it's supposed to drain? We had the pad for the barn and also a riding ring cut into the hillside above the house and have been redirecting rain water ever since. The riding ring could probably grow rice or cranberries in the winter and it took years before we got to the barn to the point where the horses weren't dog paddling at least one day each winter.
Some folks are building a huge house farther up the hill from us. I'm assuming they have engineered the runoff problem - or bought a sump pump for the basement. I used to take our dairy goats up there and let them browse while I read a book - ala Heidi. It's sort of hard for us to adapt to having someone's windows looking down on the riding ring. Nancy
