Serving White Plains
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in White Plains, AL
Basement seepage, failed sumps, and hydrostatic pressure against the foundation are extracted and dried, and the path from the ground is identified so the loss does not repeat. Groundwater and basement seepage are extracted and dried only after the path from the soil is identified — a wall, a slab, a drain, or a failed sump. Drying the interior without stopping that path returns the same water to the same floor.
Frequently asked questions
The house is new, so the drainage should be right.
It was designed for the lot as it stood, which is a narrower question than how the slope behaves. On foothill ground each property handles its own runoff and also receives whatever comes off the land above it, and that upslope contribution changes as neighboring lots are cleared and built. New construction is not exempt from a change in what arrives at it.
Why is March worse than the summer storms?
Summer cells are more intense but land on ground that has been drying for weeks and can take a good deal. By March the slopes have been wet since November with little evaporation, so there is no storage left and nearly all of five inches becomes runoff. Ground condition rather than storm size decides it.
There is rock under the thin soil on the upper lots.
That is normal on this ground and it shortens everything. Shallow soil over rock fills within minutes, after which water moves laterally along the rock surface toward the valley. It arrives at buildings downslope faster than the size of the storm would suggest and often from a direction that has no visible channel.
The same questions, in context, on the White Plains mold removal page.