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Install corrugated steel window wells halfway up the basement windows that are deep enough (ie the face is still far away enough from the foundation wall) to permit egress and sufficient light. The union between the rock and the window well could be made better and easier to seal by first mounting scribed pieces of pwf lumber. Then install a clay soil “cap” around the whole house perimeter, topped with topsoil and seeded.
If you really want to do things “all the way” you’d have to trench around the entire foundation down to the bottom of the foundation footings, install weeping tile around the entire perimeter, with tees of weeping tile up into the window wells minimum 6” below the bottoms of the basement windows and fastened to the wall so they don’t fall over when you backfill. Before backfilling, cover the perimeter weeping tile with minimum 8” of drain rock and fill the uprights with drain rock so they don’t collapse when you backfill. Then backfill, incrementally compact with a jumping jack without cracking the foundation walls, install clay cap with proper grade, then topsoil and seed. Then fill the rest of the depth of the window wells with drain rock to hide the top of the upright pieces of weeping tile.