Serving Rock Springs
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Rock Springs, WY
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 concrete at the base of the foundation is flaking.
In alkali soils that is often salt rather than ordinary weathering. Salts in the ground draw moisture and crystallize in the pores of concrete and mortar, breaking the surface apart from within, and they corrode buried metal at the same time. It is slow and it accelerates wherever the ground beside a wall stays damp. Keeping that ground as dry as possible is the practical control, since the soil chemistry cannot be changed.
The creek is dry almost all year.
It is a channel nonetheless, and it carries flow within minutes when its catchment gets rain, because this ground absorbs almost nothing. Anything built, fenced, or stored in its path is exposed on those occasions. Looking at the channel during a storm rather than on a dry day is the way to understand what it actually does, and it is worth doing before deciding what to keep near it.
Snow drifts against one side of the house every winter.
Wind decides where it lands, and where it lands decides where the meltwater goes. A drift built against a wall through the winter melts directly against the foundation rather than across open ground, concentrating a season of precipitation at one spot. Snow fencing, or changing what sits upwind of the building, moves the drift. It is a landscaping decision with a direct effect on the foundation.
The same questions, in context, on the Rock Springs mold removal page.