Serving Hastings
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Hastings, NE
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 ground here was an ordnance plant and the water is monitored.
Parts of this area carry contamination in the groundwater from wartime industry, and it is tracked rather than forgotten. That matters twice: what a private well draws is worth checking against the published monitoring, and anything that puts surface water quickly into the ground on that land deserves a second look.
The creek through the middle is small for what it drains.
It is, and that mismatch is the whole of the local flood problem. A channel that size receives what a wide area of flat plain sheds, and on ground with almost no fall the water arrives slowly and then has nowhere to go. It spreads rather than rising, which is a different exposure from a river town.
Nothing about the drainage here was ever designed for a storm like that.
Nor could it reasonably have been. Systems are sized against a stated storm rather than against any storm, and the events that matter on the plains are several times that figure. That is not a defect to be reported; it is a limit to plan around, and it argues for keeping the expensive things off the floor rather than for more pipe.
Read it with the local conditions on the Hastings page.