Serving Lutz
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Lutz, 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
Eleven inches in one month. Is that figure right?
It is, and averaging it away is the mistake. A month like that leaves the ground at capacity for weeks together rather than briefly, so an afternoon storm at the end of August behaves nothing like the same storm in April. Drainage that copes comfortably in the dry season is simply overwhelmed once the profile has filled.
The lake down the road is up and ours is unchanged.
Lakes in sand country sit in separate hollows rather than being connected, so one can be several feet up while another a mile away is unchanged. Each responds to what is happening in the ground beneath it. That makes a neighbor's lake a poor guide to what your own is about to do.
There is no street drainage on this road at all.
On large lots that is common and it changes where the effort belongs. With no system to send water to, everything happens inside the boundary: the fall of the last few feet before a wall, where the roof water is put, and whether any area drain still has a working outlet. None of it is expensive and all of it is the owner's.
This FAQ belongs to the Lutz page; it is repeated here.