Serving North Las Vegas
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in North Las Vegas, NV
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
Four inches a year. What causes water damage here?
Almost entirely the plumbing. Heaters, the hoses behind the machines, the line to the refrigerator and the manifolds feeding the landscape irrigation are where it comes from, and heat of this order shortens the life of every flexible component among them. What the annual rainfall figure describes is a climate; it has essentially nothing to say about how water gets inside a building here.
Twenty minutes of rain turned the street into a channel.
Desert ground absorbs essentially nothing, so everything that lands runs immediately, and the street is the channel because nothing else exists at that scale. A single cell can deliver a large fraction of the annual total in under an hour onto that surface. The volume is genuinely small; the rate is what does the damage.
The concrete channels handle it, do they not?
They handle a great deal and they have a stated capacity rather than an unlimited one, and they only take water once it reaches them. Most of what damages a house here happens on the way: water crossing a yard, ponding against a garage, or arriving at a low driveway. The regional system addresses the regional problem; the local one is still local.
This FAQ belongs to the North Las Vegas page; it is repeated here.