Serving Greenwood
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Greenwood, 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
The lake is higher in summer than in winter.
That is deliberate on a managed reservoir: the level is held up through the warmer months and drawn down for the winter, on a schedule set for the season rather than in response to weather. For a shoreline property it means the relevant level is the summer one rather than an average, and it means a winter storm meets a water body with room in it.
The bad months here are the cold ones.
It comes down to what the soil is already carrying. From late autumn the vegetation has stopped drawing anything out and the ground stays full, so the wettest months of the year land on a profile with no room in it. The identical rainfall in July meets ground that has been drying steadily and plants working hard on it. When it falls explains more here than how hard it falls.
The cove behind the property is small. Is it a risk?
Its size is misleading, because a cove is a connection to the main body rather than a stream draining land. Whatever the reservoir does reaches up it, so a narrow inlet can bring water that has nothing to do with local rainfall. The thing to follow is the reservoir's published level rather than the rain gauge, which is the opposite of what a channel that size would suggest.
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