Determining What Level Is

We've been busy in the backyard - but before we could start digging up our grass and moving the dirt around, we had to determine what level was...

My husband engineered a water leveler and we learned that level was roughly 12 inches higher in many sections of our yard than the existing height. Clearly, it is going to take a lot of dirt to fill in the spaces and fortunately enough, there are sections of the yard that need to be brought down to create a level standing.

After taking the water leveler around the yard, we found that the fence line level - the exact height that we needed to bring the dirt up to.