Serving Mount Pleasant
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Mount Pleasant, 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 creek behind here is small. Should it be a concern?
Its size at low water is misleading, because a channel like that is a connection to the sea rather than something draining land. Whatever the coast does travels up it, so a narrow creek can deliver water with no relation to local rainfall at all. The figure worth following is the forecast tide rather than the rain gauge, which is the reverse of what a channel that size suggests.
How far up do these creeks stay tidal?
Further than nearly anyone expects. A property a mile from open water can sit at the head of one and feel the same twice-daily movement, and from the ground there is often nothing to indicate it because the channel is behind a treeline. The mapping settles it in a couple of minutes and it is worth checking rather than judging by eye.
This subdivision is barely twenty years old.
It is designed to a stated storm size rather than to any storm, and on ground this flat the design also assumes the receiving creeks can take what is sent to them, which stops being true when the tide is up. New drainage fails differently from old drainage rather than not at all, and the failures are usually the receiving end rather than the pipes.
The same questions, in context, on the Mount Pleasant mold removal page.