Serving Lawson
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Lawson, 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
Three inches in an hour and nothing else that month.
That is the shape of summer rainfall here: a small number of very intense cells rather than steady weather. Anything sized comfortably against the monthly total is overwhelmed by one hour of it, and thin soil over rock absorbs almost nothing of what lands. What a single hour can deliver is the relevant number and it bears no relation to the average.
There are six inches of soil and then it is rock.
Which rules out most of the usual answers, because a trench that needs depth means breaking stone at a price that changes the job. What works instead is surface work: shaping the ground to send water past the building, taking roof water well out in a pipe, and accepting that nothing is going to soak away on a lot like this one.
There is no public sewer on this side of town.
Then the parcel handles its own disposal, and thin soil over rock is a difficult place to do it. A field needs depth of soil to work in and there is very little here, so trouble in a wet week means it is close to its limit and trouble after ordinary rain means it is past it. County health records will show what was approved.
The same questions, in context, on the Lawson mold removal page.