Serving Concord
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Concord, 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 has grown enormously in thirty years.
It has, and the receiving creeks have not been enlarged to match. Every subdivision detains its own runoff to the standard of its day, but the channel at the bottom takes the sum of all of them. Growth of this speed changes the hydrology of a catchment faster than the infrastructure in it gets revisited.
The old center seems to have different problems.
Its drainage was laid out for the town that existed then, with far less pavement upstream and smaller design storms in use. Everything built around it since drains through or past that older system. Older cores in fast-growing places routinely handle flows nobody sized them for.
A hurricane came ashore hundreds of miles from here.
Distance from the coast is a poor guide inland. Systems that make landfall and track inland shed their wind quickly and keep their moisture, and one that slows over the piedmont can put a month of rain onto already saturated ground. Several of the worst flood events in this region arrived exactly that way.
These questions come from the Concord page.