Serving Midland
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Midland, MI
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 house had never flooded and then it did.
Where a failure upstream is the cause, the property's own history is no guide at all, because the event was not the sort of thing that history records. That is worth saying plainly rather than treating the past as reassurance. What is useful instead is the current mapping and the current state of the structures upstream, both of which have been revisited since.
Who is responsible for a dam that is not the government's?
A private owner, under state oversight, and the balance between those two is exactly what became the issue here. For a property downstream the practical questions are which structures are above it, who holds them, when they were last inspected and what the finding was. Those are matters of public record, and they are worth looking at rather than assuming somebody else is watching.
Is the flood mapping still accurate after something like that?
It has been revised, and the revision rather than anyone's memory is the document that matters. Modeling a river system after structures are removed or altered produces different lines than before, and those lines determine insurance as well as expectation. Anyone near either channel is worth checking the current version for rather than relying on what was true previously.
This FAQ belongs to the Midland page; it is repeated here.