Serving Charlottesville
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Charlottesville, VA
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 stream was buried and now it is not.
Reopening a buried channel changes how the water behaves and it changes the mapping with it, which is the document that matters rather than anyone's memory of the ground before. Restored channels generally handle more than the pipe they replaced and they also occupy ground that was previously usable. Anyone near it is worth checking the current version for.
It was up and down again inside one storm.
A small catchment that is mostly roof and pavement has no delay in it at all. Rain that would once have taken hours to work through soil now reaches the channel in minutes, so the level spikes and drops within a single storm and nothing upstream holds any of it back. For a property beside one, decisions have to have been made in advance; there is no useful interval during.
The oldest streets seem to have no system at all.
Streets laid out before anyone was required to manage runoff simply assumed the ground would take it, and with rock this close under the surface it never really did. What is there is generally a roadside ditch and a pipe under each drive rather than a designed system. Knowing that sets expectations properly: there may be nothing to unblock and nobody to call, and everything useful happens on the lot itself.
Read it with the local conditions on the Charlottesville page.