Serving Oshkosh
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Oshkosh, WI
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
There is a second lake immediately upstream as well.
There is, and the river between them is short, so the city sits on a reach with a lake at each end. Neither can discharge freely while the other is up, which means water passing through has very little room to move and the level here is decided by two bodies of water rather than by the flow between them.
The shoreline moved a hundred yards and the level only rose a foot.
On ground this flat that is the arithmetic. A small vertical change covers an enormous horizontal distance, so depth is a poor measure of what a rise actually reaches. Anyone judging exposure here should be looking at how far inland a given level extends rather than at how deep it gets at the bank.
Ice pushed up over the bank and moved things in the yard.
Ice on a lake this size expands and is driven by wind, and where it comes ashore it arrives as a slow ridge that moves whatever is in front of it. It is a winter event with nothing to do with rainfall, and no barrier stops it. What helps is keeping the first few yards back from the bank clear of anything fixed.
These questions come from the Oshkosh page.