Serving Littleton
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Littleton, CO
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
There is a reservoir above the town. Is that the end of it?
For the river channel it does a great deal, and for a house it usually does nothing at all. A structure like that is built to hold back a flood on the watercourse it sits on. It has no bearing on a street inlet at capacity, on a lawn draining toward a wall, or on the water in the soil beside a foundation, and those account for most of the damage that actually happens here.
The floor slab has broken and one part now stands higher.
That is heave rather than settlement, and it is the characteristic failure on this soil. Claystone takes on water and expands with real force, pushing the slab up from beneath. The water almost always got there from the surface: roof discharge too close to the wall, irrigation against the foundation, or ground falling toward the building. The remedy sits outside the concrete.
Under twenty inches in an average year, and yet.
Averages describe the ordinary years and say nothing whatever about the rare one. A system that parks where the plains meet the range can put down more in three days than the area normally sees in a year, onto ground and into channels shaped by the ordinary case. That is the whole reason the flood record here reads so strangely against the rainfall figure.
The Littleton overview carries this FAQ with the city research.