Serving Nanticoke
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Nanticoke, PA
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
Does what is under the ground here really matter?
It matters more than almost anything at the surface. The workings beneath hold a body of water whose level moves independently of the weather, and it can rise into cellars from below in conditions that give no surface warning at all. This is genuinely local: the same rainfall in a town without mining beneath behaves nothing like it.
The floor has dropped slightly at one end.
Worth having looked at properly, because subsidence over old workings shows up first as small differential movement. Its relevance to water is that it breaks drain and sewer lines buried in the moving ground, so a slow settlement produces a drainage failure some time later. The two are usually reported as separate problems.
Some of this ground is made rather than natural.
Much of it is, from generations of material brought up and spread. It drains quite differently from the soil around it, sometimes far faster and sometimes hardly at all, and it does not behave the way a standard assessment would assume. Knowing which kind of ground a property sits on changes what is worth doing about it.
This FAQ belongs to the Nanticoke page; it is repeated here.