Serving Deltona
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Deltona, 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 city was platted as lots and sold long before anyone built.
It was, as one very large subdivision laid out on paper in the sixties, and the drainage was designed for that plan rather than for what actually arrived. Lots filled in over decades, so a street's network may have been sized for a density that never came or one that has since been exceeded.
The lakes here are not connected to each other.
Most of them are not, which is why one can be up several feet while another a mile away is unchanged. They sit in separate hollows in the sand and each responds to what happens beneath it rather than to any shared channel. That makes a neighbor's lake a poor guide to what your own is about to do.
The ground here is deep sand with no public sewer on much of it.
That combination matters: effluent moves quickly through sand and gets less treatment on the way down, and in the wet season it has a shorter distance to travel before it meets the water table. Separation from the well and the seasonal high level both count for more here than the size of a disposal field does.
This FAQ belongs to the Deltona page; it is repeated here.