Serving Boone
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Boone, NC
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 town sits higher than almost anywhere else in the state.
It does, which gives it more rain and far more snow than the country below, and it puts the town at the top of its own catchments rather than downstream of anyone. That is mostly an advantage. What it costs is speed: the streams here are short and steep and they respond within the hour with no warning attached.
A storm that came ashore hundreds of miles away did this.
Systems reaching this far inland arrive with the wind gone and the moisture intact, and when the mountains force that air upward it comes out as a great deal of rain over a small area. That is how the largest events here happen. Watching the track after landfall matters far more than watching it before, which is the reverse of the coastal habit.
Fifty-nine inches on ground this steep.
Which means runoff is the normal condition rather than an occasional one, and it arrives moving. Interception above a building matters more here than anything done at the wall, because the flow has to be turned aside before it gathers speed. It also means small defects never get a dry spell in which to reveal themselves harmlessly.
The same questions, in context, on the Boone mold removal page.