Serving St. George
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in St. George, UT
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
That is dry sand. In what sense is it a river?
In the only sense that matters, which is that the mapping treats it as one. It fills when the uplands above shed, and the width of the bed records how wide that gets. Anything stored, planted or built between those banks is inside a floodway rather than on spare land, and being dry today says nothing about the category it belongs to.
Nothing fell on the town and the wash ran full.
That is the normal sequence. A system stalling against the high ground upstream delivers a great deal of water into channels that carry it out across this valley, and it arrives under a clear sky. Watching the local forecast tells you very little. For anything near a channel, the weather over the uplands is what to follow.
Under ten inches a year. Where does the water come from?
Almost entirely from the pipework indoors. Water heaters, braided hoses behind appliances, refrigerator feeds and irrigation manifolds account for nearly all of it, and in a place this arid a building was never detailed to shed rainfall in the first place. The precipitation figure characterizes the desert and explains nothing about how a house gets wet.
Read it with the local conditions on the St. George page.