Serving Taylor
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Taylor, 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
Where is the additional water in the sewer coming from?
Chiefly private ground rather than the roadway. Downspouts piped into house drains, footing drains joined to the same line and old laterals with joints open enough to admit groundwater all feed it, and in a city built this uniformly a great many were done identically. Taking one downspout off that line also helps everyone downstream.
The channel behind the houses is a county drain, not a creek.
Which changes who can act on it. A drain of that kind is a legal watercourse maintained under its own arrangements, established to make this ground usable, and it carries runoff from well beyond the city boundary. Establishing which authority holds a particular length is worth doing on a dry afternoon rather than during a storm.
The airport next door is an enormous continuous paved area.
It is, and a surface of that size sheds essentially everything that lands on it into a small number of channels. It has its own drainage and its own authority rather than the city's, so where flow arrives from that direction the office to approach is a different one. Establishing which is the first step.
These questions come from the Taylor page.