Serving Lawrenceville
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Lawrenceville, GA
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
One half of this city behaves nothing like the other.
It genuinely does not, and the split is by era rather than geography. The old center is old construction with old drainage, where water arrives at the surface and the conventional remedies apply. The subdivisions around it sit on decayed rock with engineered drainage, where water arrives sideways and the whole thing depends on ponds and outlets working.
Why does the basement wall on the uphill side stay wet?
The decayed layer above sound rock stores water and moves it down the slope along that boundary, so a basement cut into it intercepts the flow under pressure rather than taking anything up from below. A drain laid at that footing and taken out to daylight, which the fall usually permits on a sloping lot, is the arrangement that resolves it without a pump.
The sewer here had to grow very fast. Did it keep up?
In parts of the county it did and in others the work is still catching up, which is a fair thing to ask about rather than assume. Capacity was added in stages as the subdivisions arrived, so two neighborhoods a few miles apart can have quite different experiences of the same storm. The county publishes what has been done and where.
These questions come from the Lawrenceville page.