Friend of mine had a new house that the basement floor was always wet. He had
to run 2 dehumidifiers constantly. he finally decided to break a hole in the
floor and put in a sump pump hoping to drain the water from under the house.
When he broke through the floor the water actually came up inside the basement.
Further investigation revealed that when they put the plumbing in they didn't
get the pipe put together where it came out under the floor and all the water
from the upstairs drains was being dumped into the gravel under the basement
floor. Fixed the drain and the problem was gone.
David Scheidt wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:22:15 -0700, Larry list account
> <list@marketvalue.net> wrote:
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>>Tim, of course there is an exception to every rule. But the rule is still
>>the same. By the way I'm about 100 miles south of Cheyenne.
>>
>>The issue you faced may have been a ground water situation, there are in
>>fact underground rivers, that is very rare but perhaps supported by the fact
>>that when you moved three blocks the problem went away.
>>
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> My parents' house has had ground water flooding problems. The nominal
> water table level is only a couple feet below the basement floor. A
> wet spring after a wet winter brings the water table up; once to a
> couple feet above the basement floor. The whole township is reclaimed
> swamp, so it really is a drainage problem, but not exactly a runoff
> problem.
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John
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