Homeland, CA
Retaining Wall & Slope Drainage in Homeland
Looking for retaining wall & slope drainage in Homeland? Temecula Valley Drainage Pros serves Homeland (about 22 miles north 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 Homeland, for walls that weep and hillsides that send water at the house.
Retaining Wall & Slope Drainage for Homeland homeowners & businesses
Homeland mixes small urban lots with larger parcels where animal-keeping matters, in the county's own description, so a wall here often divides two differently graded properties. Riverside County inspects a standard block wall atop a two-foot retaining wall for a 4-inch perforated PVC drain in one cubic foot of gravel, sloped no less than a quarter inch per foot.
If the wall is dry but the ground behind the house stays wet, see French drain installation in Homeland.
- 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 Homeland property.
About Homeland
Homeland is home to roughly 6,772 residents (2020), in Riverside County. Homeland is a small unincorporated community north of Menifee, part of the Winchester–Homeland area on the valley plain. It is largely residential with a mix of older parcels and newer infill.
Local landmarks include Highway 74 corridor, Homeland–Romoland area.
Retaining Wall & Slope Drainage in nearby areas
Retaining Wall & Slope Drainage questions from Homeland customers
- Homeland looks flat — where does slope drainage come from?
- From the ground on either side of it. The county's Harvest Valley/Winchester Area Plan places Homeland east of Romoland, bounded by the Lakeview Mountains to the north and the Double Buttes to the south. A wall on a parcel near either edge is holding a cut or fill in that transition, and water reaching it arrives off higher ground rather than as sheet flow across a level yard.
- Do fills behind a wall on a mobilehome lot have their own rules?
- Yes. California Code of Regulations Title 25 section 1116 requires that fills made to meet its grading requirements comply with section 1045 of the same chapter, while minor load-bearing grading and area fills made with compacted class 2 aggregate and not exceeding six inches in depth do not require additional approvals. Homeland's housing is a mixture of single family and mobile homes.
- How tall can a wall be here before an engineer has to design it?
- Riverside County's standard garden, pilaster and retaining wall designs are good to six feet, and anything higher requires an engineered design. The inspection requirements call for #2 bond beams if a wall is over six feet tall and #3 bond beams if it is over ten feet, with additional inspections at five-foot intervals. Homeland is unincorporated, so county inspectors apply those thresholds.
- Are open head joints an acceptable substitute for a drain behind the wall?
- The county's block wall inspection requirements treat them as alternatives. Where head joints were omitted on the first course of a county standard block wall atop a two-foot retaining wall, a wall drain may be used in lieu of omitting head joints. So either the joints are left open at the base of the wall or a drain line is installed behind it.
Runoff coming down a hillside toward the house, or a retaining wall that weeps, bulges, or stains
Describe your Homeland property and we will connect you with a local contractor.