Serving Bennington
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Bennington, VT
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 wells around here were tested after the plant closed.
They were, because contamination from a long-running industrial site reached private supplies across a wide area, and municipal water was extended to some of it afterward. Which properties are on the extended mains and which are still on a well is a matter of record. Anyone on a well here should know when it was last tested and for what.
The brook came up and went down inside an afternoon.
A catchment that short and steep holds nothing back, so the whole of a storm reaches the channel at once and the level leaps rather than spreading. It falls away with the same speed. Nobody gauges streams of that size, which means the only surviving account of what one did is whatever somebody photographed while it was happening.
There is rock a foot down and the yard will not drain.
Then nothing is soaking away regardless of how the ground is shaped, and most of the usual advice about grading is beside the point. Water arriving has to be intercepted and taken somewhere, which on a lot like this means a shallow line above the building discharging to daylight rather than anything that relies on the soil.
Read it with the local conditions on the Bennington page.