Serving Lawrence
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Lawrence, KS
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
Bottomland or hill: does it change the answer?
Entirely. On the bottom the water arrives from beneath as the river raises the level in the ground, and the work is interior drainage with a pump. On the hills it arrives across the surface or along the top of rock, and the work is interception above the building. A remedy matched to one is simply wrong for the other.
The city climbs a steep hill from the river in a short distance.
It does, and that puts a great deal of runoff onto the streets rather than into the drains, because water on a grade like that is moving too fast to drop into a grate. The lowest blocks receive what every block above them shed. The work that helps down there is at the boundary rather than in the road.
Nobody living here now was here for the last one.
Annual turnover means the record of what a property has done lives in the files rather than in anybody head. City records show past repairs, the mapping shows the ground, and the two or three households on a street who have stayed put hold everything else. Ask inside the first month; nobody will offer it unprompted during a storm.
These questions come from the Lawrence page.