Draining the site

Two posts ago I showed the puddles that have formed on the site after 7/10ths of an inch of rain. Some of that water has evaporated and some has sunk into the soil, but most is still sitting there. Today I scraped a small trench across the future bedroom, hallway and kitchen to get the water to flow out on its own.

The trench runs past the pile of dirt on the left and off down the hillside. It seems to be working. The water level is already falling.

The site is still very muddy, but not as bad as just after the rain.