Serving Goose Creek
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Goose Creek, SC
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
There is an old bank running across the back of the property.
On this ground it is very likely an agricultural earthwork, part of a system that controlled water across these fields long before any houses arrived. Some of them still function as barriers and some have been breached. Either way they decide where water goes, and cutting one or building one up changes the drainage for neighbors as well. It is worth understanding before altering.
The ditch is full and the tide is in.
The two are connected. Ditches here discharge to creeks that are tidal, and a ditch cannot flow while the water at its outfall stands above it. So the system holds what is in it until the tide falls, and rain arriving in that window has nowhere to go. It is not a blockage and there is nothing to clear. What matters is knowing that the window exists.
The subdivision is new. Should the drainage not be adequate?
It is designed to a standard, and the standard is a storm of a stated size rather than any storm. On ground this flat the design also assumes the receiving ditches and creeks can take what is sent to them, which stops being true when the tide is up or when a tropical system parks overhead. New drainage fails differently from old drainage rather than not at all.
The same questions, in context, on the Goose Creek mold removal page.