Serving Burnsville
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Burnsville, MN
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 old quarry ground behind the city is full of water.
It is, and those pits reach down into the rock rather than sitting as separate ponds, so their level reports what is happening underground across a wide area rather than what has rained. Watching one is a useful daily reading of the ground beneath a property nearby, and it moves for reasons the weather does not explain.
The bluff along the river valley is steep and it moves.
It does, and the movement follows weeks of saturated ground rather than any single storm, so it is a late-spring event rather than a storm one. Fresh cracks along the top of a slope, trees leaning out of line and new seeps on the face are the signs, and they are worth walking for each April.
The wetlands between the neighborhoods are protected.
They are, which among other things means nobody is going to lower one because a garden has got wet. Their levels follow multi-year weather rather than single storms, so a run of wet years raises them and they stay raised. Planning against the high end of that range is more realistic than expecting relief.
This FAQ belongs to the Burnsville page; it is repeated here.