Serving Lexington
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Lexington, 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 creek runs under the downtown. Is that a problem?
A buried channel has exactly the capacity it was given, less whatever has collected in it since, and neither figure is knowable from outside. That is a limitation rather than a fault. What the city holds by way of records is worth asking for; beyond that, the practical question for anyone above or beside it is where the water goes on the day the culvert is full.
The hollow used to swallow everything and now it holds water.
The drain into the rock has closed. These natural openings carry water off for decades until silt, debris or a small collapse seals one, at which point the low ground above it has no outlet at all and becomes a pond. There is no blocked pipe and no ditch to clear: the route out was always underground and it has stopped working.
Water arrives at the wall long after the rain finished.
Late water has come through the rock rather than across the surface. It works down through what soil there is, meets stone it cannot pass, and follows that until something interrupts it, which takes hours and can bring it from a long way outside the boundary. Surface flow shows up during the storm instead. That difference in timing points the work below ground.
The same questions, in context, on the Lexington mold removal page.