De Luz, CA
Retaining Wall & Slope Drainage in De Luz
Looking for retaining wall & slope drainage in De Luz? Temecula Valley Drainage Pros serves De Luz (about 10 miles west of downtown Temecula) and the surrounding Temecula area. Drainage systems for hillside lots and retaining walls — wall weep systems, back-of-wall gravel drains, and slope interceptor drains that relieve hydrostatic pressure and control runoff. Retaining wall and slope drainage in De Luz, for walls that weep and hillsides that send water at the house.
Retaining Wall & Slope Drainage for De Luz homeowners & businesses
Walls here are cut into deeply weathered rock. San Diego State University's field station describes soils of the Entisol, Inceptisol and Alfisol orders above a paralithic zone of corestones and saprock reaching 30 meters in thickness over unweathered plutonic rock, on canyon walls commonly inclined 45 degrees or more.
If the wall is dry but the ground behind the house stays wet, see French drain installation in De Luz.
- Relieves hydrostatic pressure behind retaining walls
- Interceptor drains control hillside and slope runoff
- Protects walls, pads, and downslope structures
Runoff coming down a hillside toward the house, or a retaining wall that weeps, bulges, or stains? Talk it through for your De Luz property.
About De Luz
De Luz is in Riverside County. De Luz is a rural luxury enclave in the hills west of Temecula on the Santa Rosa Plateau, spanning roughly 20,000 acres of large multi-acre estate parcels, avocado and citrus groves, and oak-covered ridgelines. Lots commonly run five acres or more, on agricultural-zoned hillside terrain along roads like De Luz Road and Rancho California Road.
Local landmarks include Santa Rosa Plateau, De Luz Creek, Cross Creek Golf Club, Santa Margarita River.
Retaining Wall & Slope Drainage in nearby areas
Retaining Wall & Slope Drainage questions from De Luz customers
- At what height does a wall on an unincorporated De Luz parcel need a permit?
- Riverside County publishes a work-exempt-from-permits handout that lists block walls not over three feet in height from grade among the items needing no building permit, alongside fences not over seven feet and small low decks. Anything above that threshold is handled as permitted work rather than exempt work, and the cut or fill the wall holds is governed separately by the County's grading ordinance.
- Why does water show up behind a wall built into what looks like solid granite?
- Because the rock is not solid at wall depth. The field station description for this stretch of the Santa Margarita river records a paralithic zone of corestones and saprock up to 30 meters thick sitting above unweathered plutonic rock, under soils of the Entisol, Inceptisol and Alfisol orders. Weathered granitic material at that depth behaves nothing like the intact rock below it.
- How close can a wall or slope cut come to a septic seepage pit?
- Riverside County's onsite wastewater program measures it from the bank. The horizontal distance from a seepage pit to the top of a cut bank must equal five times the vertical height of the bank, or 25 feet, whichever is less. Installation on ground steeper than 30 percent also requires a slope stability report approved by a professional engineer or professional geologist.
- What does the County require at the top and toe of a graded slope?
- Riverside County's grading ordinance sets cut and fill slope setbacks from property lines by figure, allows reduced setbacks only where substantiating data is submitted, and states the top-of-cut setback shall be no less than is required to accommodate any required interceptor drains. The building official may also require more setback where stability or safety calls for it.
Runoff coming down a hillside toward the house, or a retaining wall that weeps, bulges, or stains
Describe your De Luz property and we will connect you with a local contractor.