Serving Senoia
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Senoia, 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
This was farmland twenty years ago.
Most of it was, and the change happened faster than the receiving channels were revisited. Fields absorbed rain over hours; roofs and streets deliver it in minutes. The creeks taking that flow were shaped by the older regime, and that mismatch explains a good deal of what happens here now.
Why does clay matter more than the rainfall total?
Because it decides what fraction becomes runoff. Piedmont red clay takes water slowly even when dry and effectively stops once wet, so the second inch of a storm behaves nothing like the first. In a catchment that has also been paved, the clay removes what little absorption remained.
The neighborhood pond is the only drainage feature here.
That is common in developments of this age, and it makes the pond's condition more consequential than it looks. These basins silt up over the years and lose the storage they were designed to hold, and outlets block with debris. A feature that appears permanent and self-maintaining generally is neither.
These questions come from the Senoia page.