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Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Davie, FL
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 paddock holds water for a week and the street next to it does not.
Ground worked by animals compacts at the surface until it accepts very little, so what falls on a paddock sits there while the same rain on a graded street is gone within the hour. It is a soil condition rather than a drainage failure. Breaking that crust and keeping a fall across the paddock does more than any pipe would, and it has to be repeated.
Nearly seventy inches. Is anything ever dry?
Less than in most places, and that is what the figure means in practice. Through the wet season the ground rarely drains fully before the next rain, so material that would recover elsewhere simply does not. Anything at or below grade carries a longer load here and a small leak has considerably more time to work than the same leak would further north.
Is the water underneath this ground natural?
Not really. This was wetland and it was made usable by cutting canals and holding the level down with structures, so what is beneath a property is a managed quantity. It responds to operating decisions as well as to rain, which is why it can be higher in a wet September than any amount of local rainfall would suggest on its own.
The Davie overview carries this FAQ with the city research.