Serving New Albany
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in New Albany, IN
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
Most of what reaches this lot started a long way above it.
With slopes that size immediately behind the city, a property at the bottom receives whatever the hills shed as well as whatever falls on it, and the two need different work. Gutters and grading handle the roof and do nothing about a flow arriving from several hundred feet of elevation. Interception across the hillside is what changes that.
The hills behind the city are steep and the ground in front is flat.
Which produces two unrelated problems within a mile. Up on the slope water arrives sideways through the ground and at speed; down on the flat by the river it is a matter of levels and how long they stay up. A plan drawn for one of those is close to useless at the other.
What survives a fortnight under water?
The structure and the hard surfaces, and very little else. Porous material submerged that long is finished whatever a meter reads afterward, and none of the drying can begin until the level has fallen. Saying so at the outset stops money going into equipment aimed at things being removed anyway.
These questions come from the New Albany page.