Serving Richmond
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Richmond, 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
New streets were built above the ground that used to take the water.
Which changes both where rainfall enters the rock and how fast it gets there. An opening that swallowed a field's worth of slow seepage for a century can be overwhelmed by the same area delivered in twenty minutes off pavement. The rock has not changed; what is being asked of one point in it has.
Water is at the wall two hours after the sky cleared.
Then it arrived through the rock rather than over the yard, and the useful move is finding where it went in. Dye put into a suspected opening during a wet spell, and someone watching where it appears, answers in an afternoon what guessing never will. The entry point is frequently outside the boundary altogether.
Does anything done on this property reach other people's water?
More directly than in most places, because water entering the ground here reaches wells and springs through open rock rather than being filtered by soil on the way down. That is why fuel, chemicals and anything else stored or spilled at the surface carries further here than an owner would expect, and it is a thing worth understanding before an incident rather than after one.
Read it with the local conditions on the Richmond page.