Serving Glenwood
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Glenwood, IL
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
Practically nothing here has been built since the sixties.
That is unusual even for an established suburb, and it has a specific consequence below ground. The footing drains and clay tile around these houses are original, which puts them well past the life anyone designed for. A whole village reaches that point together rather than house by house.
The basement was dry for thirty years and now is not.
That pattern usually means the drainage around the footing has finally silted or rooted closed rather than that conditions changed. Clay tile fails gradually and without any single event to mark it, so the change reads as sudden from inside. The ground is doing what it always did; what was carrying the water away has stopped.
Grass stays soaked for the better part of a week.
That is the till behaving as it does. It is dense glacial clay with very little pore space, so infiltration effectively stops once the top few inches are wet, and on flat ground with no route away the water has to evaporate. Days of standing water is normal for this soil rather than evidence of a fault.
Read it with the local conditions on the Glenwood page.