What a bad neighbor with a water softener can do to your property. Potassium. Salts. Brine.

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So you can sue them. This is unacceptable.

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@@jodycarol of course. But if you were a trained judge, how much evidence is there really? Did they actually cause the damage? Well. We do have that video where all our walkways were ice free after a snowstorm. Our whole front yard is salted. Snow is the one thing that shows the extent. The entire back yard has a ring of blight around it. But even so, unless they admit it, there is little or no direct proof. Just super circumstantial. So year after year, I document the damage. The neighbor told me it was not regular salt. It was potassium. So she admitted it to me. I made her shovel up the half-dissolved salt. You can use a very small water softener with potassium. Which is exactly what I saw on their yard before the softener tank was removed and a pile of rock salt was left behind. Then it rained and dissolved all the salt in the pile. By then, my yard was poisoned. Later on, I discovered that some people do install water softeners outside their house. It is usually a space problem. But plastic tanks take a beating in the Texas sun. They crack and break. And this is probably what happened to my neighbor. Their water softener broke, then they just dismantled it. I tried calling the city. All I get is voicemail. So now I’m going to post all my videos. It just so happens that this time of year, it looks as bad as it ever gets. And I have all the videos of all the dying trees. I even have a video of my neighbor admitting to the problem. Even if I go through all the trouble of taking them to court, I don’t think anything will be done to pay us the $10,000 that we would typically be owed for such damage. The reality is that we need our entire yard scraped off down 2 feet. Soil has to be brought in. And the yard must be tilled and replanted. The fix is more damaging than just leaving it.