Broken drains and lawns

Tehya

Hello,

I'm not quite sure if this really belongs here but as you all seem to know a lot more than me about garden/gardening I thought I'd come and ask a question. Hope this is OK.

We've had an ongoing problem with our drains and apparently so did the previous tenant here. Our neighbour has lived here for years and has said that every time the garden floods on one side of the path a hump appears on the other lawn and on this hump the grass dies. Well for the second time this year the drains backed up into the garden, and this time sewage has risen up yuk, the hump is there and over the last week the grass has died or at least looks like it has. The grass has turned yellow and is now not growing at all on this hump.

What I would like to know is would human waste cause the grass to die as according to the neighbour this has been going on for at least eight years and our landlord (housing association) don't seem to be doing much about it.

Also when the problem is fixed will the whole lawn need to be dug up and replaced or is there some kind of treatment I could use to help bring the lawns back to how they were?

Thank you for reading this and I do apologise if it's not the correct place for it.

Tehya

fwor

I doubt the problem is human waste. Most plants - including grass - thrive on it, so if things are dying, it's probably something else.