This client was having major rivers run through her front yard from the upper neighbors on her street. In order to keep the rain run off from going down near her front door we built a rain garden to capture the rain and created a natural river scape. When it was raining, I went over to see where the water was going and the water was telling exactly what needed to happen. We built a rain capture garden away from the house. In addition to keep the water away from her front walkway, we also are filling the ground water stores to create more rain instead of filling the storm drains.