Serving Anaheim
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Anaheim, CA
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 reservoir upstream is enormous. Why is anyone still flooding?
Because that structure is aimed at the river and almost nothing that damages a house here is the river. An inlet at capacity in a cloudburst, a lawn falling toward a wall, a line under a slab that has parted: none of those is affected in the slightest by what is held back miles upstream. Two entirely separate problems get discussed as though they were one.
The channel is concrete. Should that not be enough?
It has a capacity, and that capacity is a design figure rather than an unlimited one. What matters for a property beside it is what happens when the figure is exceeded, not whether the channel exists. On ground this flat, water that leaves a channel spreads a very long way at a shallow depth, which is why the mapping covers a much wider area than the channel does.
Every house on this street seems to fail at the same time.
They were finished within a couple of years of each other to one specification, so the pipe, the flashing detail and the position of the water heater are identical from door to door. Things installed together wear out together. The practical use of that is predictive: what happened next door last winter is a reasonable forecast for this house, particularly for anything never replaced since it was built.
These questions come from the Anaheim page.