Serving Margate
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Margate, 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
Almost nothing here has been rebuilt since it went up.
Which is unusual in this part of the state and it matters twice over. Elevations were set to the standards of one decade and never revised upward by redevelopment, and the plumbing across a whole city is of one age and reaching the end of it together. Both of those are knowable in advance rather than surprises.
The swale between the properties has been filled and planted.
That is the commonest single cause of a wet lot here, because those shallow channels are the drainage rather than landscaping and they only work as a continuous line. One filled section stops the whole run. Walking its full length after rain, across the boundaries, shows where it was broken far better than any drawing.
The canal system here is held at a level by a district.
It is, and that district publishes the levels it holds and the schedule it works to. That is worth knowing, because the canal is not a stream finding its own height: it is a managed level that gets lowered ahead of a forecast storm and cannot be lowered past what the coastal structures downstream will accept.
The Margate overview carries this FAQ with the city research.