Serving Jupiter
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Jupiter, 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
Seventy inches. Does the ground ever recover?
Less often than almost anywhere, and that is the practical meaning of the figure. Through the wet season the profile rarely drains completely before the next storm arrives, so ground that would recover elsewhere does not. Anything at or below grade is under a longer-running load here, and a small leak has considerably more time to do damage than the same leak would further north.
The river is high and it has not rained for two days.
A river discharging through a tidal inlet can only let go at the rate the tide allows, so it holds water after a storm and releases it over the following tide cycles. What that means practically is that a second storm arriving before the first has cleared meets a river with no room in it. Following the inlet's tide alongside the rainfall gives the better picture.
The same storm behaves differently in May and October.
Because of what is already in the ground. Early in the wet season sand still has unsaturated depth beneath it and an afternoon storm disappears. By October the profile is full, the river is carrying its wet-season level, and the identical storm has nowhere to go. The rain did not change; the room in front of it did.
These questions come from the Jupiter page.