Serving Tulsa
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Tulsa, OK
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
Why is there open ground along the creeks?
Because the buildings there were purchased and removed rather than repaired again, and the ground was kept open deliberately. Those corridors are floodplain doing what floodplain does, and their openness is a large part of why the city fares better now than it once did. Water in them is the arrangement working rather than a problem.
Why did this street flood when nowhere else did?
Because storms here sit over a small area and keep producing there for hours together, which means one part of the city can take five inches while another takes under an inch. Averages conceal that entirely. The number that explains a particular property is what a gauge nearby actually recorded on the day, not any figure covering a month.
The walls have opened up and the meter is running faster.
Whatever arrived plumbed in with the building, on a working life of roughly fifteen to twenty years. Where a neighborhood went up together they come due together, so a neighbor's failure is a dated notice rather than their misfortune. Reading the meter with everything off, twice a year, catches most of it early.
This FAQ belongs to the Tulsa page; it is repeated here.