Serving Louisville
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Louisville, 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
We are behind the floodwall. Why does the cellar still take water?
The wall keeps the crest off the pavement. It does not dry Ohio silt. A cellar inside that box still sits in the floodplain, and May rain plus a held river wets it from below. Hydrostatic pressure does not need a street under water. The Falls are why the river sits; the wall is why you cannot see it.
The house sits uphill of the Ohio. Where is this water coming from?
From Beargrass Creek fill, not from the river as a surface. Those uphill streets were built on ground the creek already occupies, and a May cell weeps the downhill wall for days after the Ohio has dropped. Watching the river gauge will not dry that face. The seepage job is the creek in the fill under the lot.
Water came up the floor drain during a storm that never overtopped the bank. How?
The combined lateral did it. West-end pipes still carry stormwater and sewage together, and when May rain fills the line the surcharge comes back through the fixture meant to empty the cellar. That is a capacity problem, not a plumbing fault in the house. The water has been in the street system and is treated as contaminated.
The same questions, in context, on the Louisville mold removal page.