Serving Sheboygan
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Sheboygan, 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
The bluff along the shore has lost ground since we bought.
Bluff recession here tracks the lake rather than the rainfall, and the lake swings by feet across decades rather than seasons. High-water years cut the toe of a bluff and the face follows, sometimes years later. What a bluff did through a low-water decade tells you very little about what it does through a high one.
The lake was several feet lower a decade ago.
It was, and it will be again. This lake has no meaningful outlet control and its level reflects years of accumulated precipitation across an enormous basin, so it moves in long slow cycles between record lows and record highs. A shoreline judged in one part of that cycle is being judged against the wrong number.
The harbor mouth was built rather than found.
It was, with piers out into the lake and a dredged channel behind them, and it is maintained on a schedule rather than left alone. That matters because the way sand moves along this shore is altered by those structures, so where the beach builds and where it disappears are partly a matter of engineering rather than nature.
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