Serving Kansas City
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Kansas City, MO
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
Nothing anyone tells us about this city seems to apply here.
That is a fair complaint in a place this large. The ground runs from river bottom to bluff to thin soil over limestone within a few miles, and a remedy matched to one of those is frequently wrong for another. Establishing what is under a particular lot, with a couple of test holes, comes before deciding what to spend anything on.
It flooded on our street and nowhere else in the city.
Summer storms here settle over a small area and repeat there for hours, so one neighborhood can take five inches while another takes half of one. Regional totals average all that away. For understanding what a particular property does, what a nearby gauge recorded during a specific storm is far more use than any monthly figure.
A drain has to finish somewhere and there is nowhere.
On a rock-shelf lot that is the real limit and it is worth accepting early. Collecting water is straightforward; disposing of it needs receiving ground that is genuinely lower and able to take it, and a foot of soil over stone offers neither. Where that is the case, effort goes into keeping water off the building rather than into pipes with nowhere to discharge.
This FAQ belongs to the Kansas City page; it is repeated here.