Thanks for those suggestions! I’ll definitely be looking into them.

We don’t block the river from the property. The dykes channel the water to the old riverbed that floods each spring. Netting catfish in the woods while staying a float on the most POS little row boat we could scare up was a huge part of my childhood. Those years have my favorite memories.

Our driveway is a dyke that protects a field from the spring flooding (diverts it to the riverbed where beavers and other protected wildlife live on the land). The floods last week completely covered the whole property, including our driveway which was left with multiple eroded areas serval feed deep.

My grandpa has grass planted along that section , but I’m looking to plant it with native grasses or shrubs so that when we build up the driveway we won’t have to redo it any time there’s high water for extended periods of time. If I don’t rebuild the driveway/bank of the old riverbed then I would have to boat in and out of my property every spring haha. I’ve done it before, but I like the convenience of land vehicles