Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Pennsylvania

Re: pond on property floods neighbors yard

Maybe. Then again the previous owner didn't fix it.

Have you looked into the cost of fixing the problem?

If not why don't you do that and see how big a cost it will be. With that fact in hand go and talk to your neighbor and see what its worth to him to have the flooding problem fixed. Then see what you can do to solve the problem.

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{John}

Re: pond on property floods neighbors yard

You asked about liability for fixing an overflowing pond.

I agree with my colleagues approach, but disagree with his determination.

Water is usually allowed to go where it will and a downstream property owner must accept the runoff from an upstream property.

But, if the pond is an improvement and especially a new improvement to the land then that would have some impact on the analysis.

Regards,

Roger