Serving Brunswick
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Brunswick, ME
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
Why do neighboring properties drain so differently?
Because these glacial deposits are not uniform. Sand and gravel laid down by meltwater sit in irregular beds with clay lenses running through them, so one lot drains freely while the next holds water with nothing visible at the surface to explain it. What is beneath a specific parcel matters more than the character of the area.
The tide reaches the bottom of the falls.
It does, and that splits the town into two unrelated situations. Above the drop the water responds to rain and melt inland; below it the level answers to the sea twice a day regardless of weather. An address on one side tells you very little about conditions on the other.
There was a large airfield here for decades.
There was, and land of that kind carries a great deal of pavement, buried drainage and made ground, laid out to serve the base rather than the town. Runoff patterns and buried lines there follow that older plan, and the records are not always complete. On or near such ground it is worth establishing what is actually underneath.
The same questions, in context, on the Brunswick mold removal page.