Serving Compton
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Compton, 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 creek is a concrete channel.
It is, and that was done to move a great deal of water quickly through a densely built plain. A hardened channel carries far more than the natural creek did, and its capacity is a fixed number rather than a flexible one. What exceeds it leaves the channel onto flat ground with nowhere in particular to go.
Twelve inches a year should be easy to handle.
Spread evenly it would be. Here it arrives in a handful of winter systems, and one atmospheric river can deliver a quarter of the annual figure in a day onto ground that has been dry for months. Drainage is sized for those hours rather than for the yearly total.
Every yard on the block has been paved over.
Which means nearly everything that falls becomes runoff at once. Small lots with full site coverage and paved yards send close to the entire rainfall to the street, so the storm drains carry a volume that ground of this area would otherwise have absorbed some of. Density is doing as much as the rainfall here.
Open the Compton FAQ beside the housing and climate notes.