Serving Alamogordo
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Alamogordo, NM
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
Where does the water go if there is no river?
Nowhere, which is the defining feature of a closed basin. What falls or flows in stays until it evaporates or soaks away, so there is no channel carrying it out to anywhere else. Water that reaches the low ground simply spreads and waits, and in a wet period it can remain for a long time.
The arroyo has never had water in it.
Not while anyone was watching, which is normal for these channels and no guide to their capacity. A monsoon storm over the range can send a very large flow down an arroyo within an hour, with no rain having fallen at the property at all. They are storm channels rather than landscape features.
Eleven inches a year sounds too dry to worry about.
The annual figure describes none of the days that matter. Desert soil forms a hard crust that sheds the first rainfall, and the mountains alongside concentrate a summer storm into a short intense burst. Runoff here is produced by intensity and surface condition, not by how much falls across a year.
Read it with the local conditions on the Alamogordo page.