Serving Falls Church
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Falls Church, 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
This is an independent city of two square miles inside the county.
The boundary runs through continuous built-up ground rather than around a distinct town, so a pipe can be the city's for one block and the county's for the next, with state roads adding a third office. Getting a written answer about a specific length before it is needed saves a day of being redirected.
The city is served by the county's water and sewer.
Some of it is, which adds a further office to the list of people who might hold a particular pipe. Between the city, the county and the state road network, responsibility for a given length of drainage is genuinely hard to establish from the outside. Getting it in writing before it is needed is the useful move.
There is almost no undeveloped ground left inside the city.
There is not, which removes soil from the calculation: what falls becomes runoff at once and arrives at the inlets together. The options remaining are storage and lifting rather than infiltration, which is a smaller and more expensive set, and worth knowing before paying for a scheme designed around soakaways.
The Falls Church overview carries this FAQ with the city research.