Retaining wall for garage site leveling?

[Jetsurgeon]

Hi, so building a 24x50 metal building (garage) in Central Florida. The building will fit, but will be about 3' in front of my well and pressure tank, seen behind the building location(planning on building a "lean to" to protect it from the Sun after the garage is built). The yard slopes about 24 inches from the front corner by the house to the side and back marked in Yellow.
My question is, should I have a retaining wall done for the Yellow area then backfill the area, or? There really isn't enough room at the back to just use fill dirt and slope it down in the back (at least by the well). Obviously being Florida, most of the "dirt" is sand to begin with, and I don't know if you can do that big of a turn down?

 

[u2slow]

I had my shop built with a 3' stem-wall on one end because of the sloping grade.

Couldn't you have the building tailored/adjusted for the same thing?

 

[Professor Fate]

Stem wall would be my choice also. Check code for distance from a building to the well.

 

[Jetsurgeon]

Stem wall would be my choice also. Check code for distance from a building to the well.

Thanks.....you scared me a minute, but I can find no set distance requirements in the Orange County Code....

 

[Jetsurgeon]

I had my shop built with a 3' stem-wall on one end because of the sloping grade.

Couldn't you have the building tailored/adjusted for the same thing?

Thanks, yes, that looks like exactly what I need!

 

[andyvh1959]

When I built my detached shop, its on an area that sloped up to a grade for my neighbors yard. I determined the slab level I wanted and put two rows of 8" block on the slab for a stem wall perimeter. That also gets the sill plate of the walls well above grade. I planned my walls for 8' finished from the sill plate to the top plate, and with the 16" of stem wall I have a floor to truss height of 9'-4", so if you did a three row 8" block stem wall you'd get 10'-2" inside. Depending on your struss designs it would almost be high enough for a car lift.

 

[u2slow]

In addition to the 3' stem wall on the back, the rest of my shop has about a 1' stem wall; with reliefs for mand-oors and the OH door.

 

[larry4406]

In my area wells need to be 50’ from structures.