Serving Burlington
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Burlington, 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 city falls three hundred feet to the lake in about a mile.
It does, which puts the lower streets at the bottom of a large private catchment made mostly of roof and pavement, and gives the water real speed before it reaches any grate. What arrives at the bottom started well above it. Interception above a property does more than anything done at its own walls.
The clay under this hill turns almost everything into runoff.
It takes in very little once its surface is wet, so a lawn on it behaves closer to pavement through the rest of a storm, and on a slope that water arrives somewhere fast. It is why regrading alone disappoints: nothing is soaking in regardless of the shape, so the water has to be given a route instead.
The lake level here is not something anyone controls.
Largely not, which makes it different from most large lakes. It reflects melt and rain across a basin draining two states and beyond, so it fills slowly and empties slowly and it stays high for weeks rather than days. That is forecast well ahead, and the exposure near the shore is measured in duration rather than depth.
Read it with the local conditions on the Burlington page.