Serving Port St. Lucie
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Port St. Lucie, 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
This whole area was platted long before most of it was built on.
It was, as one very large subdivision laid out on paper, and the drainage was designed for that plan rather than for what actually arrived. Lots sold individually and filled in across fifty years, so the network serving a street may have been sized for a density that never came, or one that has been exceeded.
Two houses on this street and only one has ever had water.
Nearly always a difference of a foot or two in how the lots were finished, decades apart. Building came to these plats in waves and each wave set floors at whatever was normal then, graded to whatever stood next door at the time. The result is a street with no consistent elevation, so a neighbor's history is no guide.
The ditch is still full days after the rain stopped.
Because what it is emptying is the ground rather than a storm. Once sand has taken all it will hold, the ditch becomes the outlet for the water inside the soil as well as anything running off, and that continues long after the sky has cleared. A ditch flowing slowly and clear a week later is normal; one sitting motionless means an obstruction below.
The same questions, in context, on the Port St. Lucie mold removal page.