Serving Georgetown
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Georgetown, KY
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
The low spot in the field used to swallow everything and now it ponds.
That is a swallet closing, and it is one of the characteristic events on this ground. Openings in the rock take water freely until silt, debris or a collapse blocks them, and when that happens the water has nowhere to go and the low spot becomes a pond. It is not a drainage failure in the ordinary sense and clearing a ditch will not address it.
Does what happens on this property affect the town's water?
It can, more directly than in most places. Water going into the ground here reaches the spring that supplies the town without much filtering along the way, because it travels through open rock rather than through soil. That is why what is spilled, stored or discharged on the surface matters here in a way it would not elsewhere. It is worth knowing before, not after, an incident.
Water arrives at the basement wall hours after the rain has stopped.
Late water has come through the rock rather than across the ground. It works down through the thin soil, meets rock it cannot pass, and travels along that until something interrupts it, which takes time and can bring it from well beyond the boundary. Surface runoff turns up during the storm. That gap in timing is real evidence, and it points the work below ground.
This FAQ belongs to the Georgetown page; it is repeated here.