The ability to flow rainwater around your building site, prior to the groundwater saturating below grade into the crawl space or basement of your home, means everything to the overall health of your building site, the homes foundation, and the moisture environment, or lack of it, within your home. As well as the structural integrity of the home.
The ability to, or the inability to, flow groundwater away from the foundation area of your home, faster than it can soak in, is always consistent with home drainage success. Whether the job actually gets done right and works, further translates into a degree of positive or negative health issues that result from the effort, with respect to any moisture or mold that is produced by groundwater that still remains within the crawl space or basement.
It does not matter if you live in America, Europe, Australia, Asia, Russia, the Middle East, or somewhere no one has ever heard of. Your geology and soil structure will be a different combination of elements. But certain engineering standards will remain the same. You will need to adjust for the other conditions as you find them.
Solving your groundwater problem will come from study of this web site and implementing the correct way for you to go. It may be hiring a professional in your area. Perhaps you will do it yourself with help.
You must learn how to adjust for the variables and if possible, use a home drainage professional in your area.
When big bucks and the health of your family is on the line, and everyone that you talk to about your home drainage problems keeps talking about machine dug trenches, sump pumps, and what to do with the groundwater after it flows below grade into your crawl space, you should be consulting and working with AAA Home Drainage, or a qualified home drainage professional in your part of the world.
The geology of our earth is comprised of mixtures of sand, clay, rock, and various types of minerals, dirt/mud for the most part. Much too complicated from a chemical standpoint to give solid definition to. Understanding the nature of perk science and duplicating natures existing processes, that perks groundwater back into the below grade water storage caverns of our planet, is the scientific basis behind the success of hand excavated french drains and hand excavated dry wells around the world. The truth of that statement has been documented over thousands of years or more in mans recorded history. There probably are many more hand excavated french drains installed around the world in various places than in all the western developed countries combined.
Putting the groundwater back into the underground water table below the surface of the earth, replenishes, cleans, and stabilizes the water storage supply from which we pump our drinking water, and lots of irrigation water as well, in many parts of the world.
As we all know, it is vital to our survival on this planet that we replace this groundwater storage below grade, rather than pumping the water into the sewer system. We are literally draining all our rain water away, losing it into storm sewers that run to rivers, that run to the oceans, faster than it can soak in and perk below grade.
Earths underground drinking water supply, is by scientific documentation, shrinking every year, as a result of agricultural well drilling and huge residential and industrial uses, all putting a strangle hold on the fresh underground water, as well as the above ground water sources.
The process of pumping groundwater away and putting groundwater into storm sewers starves our underground water storage of vital water, nutrients, and minerals, and eventually we will run out of drinking water, once purified through our own filtration system, as it runs through rock layers, and perks below grade.
Use dry wells or storm water retention ponds, that perk groundwater back into the earth, rather than waste it into the storm sewers. Design intelligent “green” groundwater removal systems and stormwater retention ponds, to best provide for irrigation of landscapes, without pumping from our drinking water supply. Pump right out of your storm water retention ponds or lakes, for all your irrigation needs, if you are so lucky as to have the place for one.
Many subdivisions around the nation are doing just that, as city and county planners realize the power of groundwater removal with hand excavated french drains and storm water retention ponds. In conjunction with a closed, solid pipe rain drain discharge system, that also runs roof water from a subdivision, into a storm water retention and groundwater mitigation area, and the groundwater coming off the streets in the subdivision, storm water retention ponds are engineered to hold and perk groundwater back into the earth.
Advanced engineering skills required at this level. Hire a professional.
Use hand excavated french drains and drywells, which is green environmental science that is desperately needed for preserving our planet and the drinking water supply.
Do this for yourself, but most important give future generations of your grand children the opportunity to live on a healthy planet with clean water to drink, and enough water to grow food naturally outdoors. Provide your family with clean air to breathe right now. Nothing replaces the mineral rich pure drinking water from our own planet. Bottled water will eventually lead to mineral shortages in our bodies, as man is just not as smart as he thinks at giving value to the customer in lieu of making profit by selling less for more. Bottled water will get worse and worse as time goes on too.