Serving Longmont
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Longmont, 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
The creek does not run where it used to.
A flood of that size rearranges a channel rather than simply filling it, and the work since has rebuilt sections of it deliberately. That means the mapping was revised and the revision, rather than anyone's memory of the ground before, is the document that matters. Anyone near the channel is worth checking the current version for rather than relying on what was true previously.
Sixteen inches in a normal year, and yet.
Averages describe the ordinary years and say nothing about the rare one. A system that parks where the plains meet the range can put down more across three days than this area normally sees in twelve months, onto ground and into channels shaped by the ordinary case. That is the entire reason the flood record here reads so strangely against the rainfall figure.
The slab downstairs has broken and lifted.
An average describes the years that pass without incident and says nothing whatever about the one that does not. A system parked where the plains meet the range can put down several times the annual figure across a few days, onto ground and into channels shaped entirely by ordinary conditions. That gap is why the flood record here reads so oddly beside the rainfall.
The same questions, in context, on the Longmont mold removal page.