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If you've lived in Lancaster County long enough, you know a heavy rain doesn't just mean a wet driveway. It means checking on the basement. Between the clay-heavy soil around the Susquehanna and the older stone and cinder block foundations common throughout the...

South Jersey has survived hurricanes, nor'easters, and the kind of summer downpours that flood a street in twenty minutes flat. The Battleship New Jersey has weathered decades of storms docked along the Camden waterfront — a steel hull built to take a beating. Most...

Most homeowners assume a wet basement means a roof leak, a bad window seal, or rain finding its way in from above. In Wilmington, that assumption is often wrong. The Delaware River, Christina River, Brandywine Creek, White Clay Creek, and Red Clay Creek all sit close...

Lancaster County has seen its share of wild weather lately — fast-moving thunderstorms, torrential downpours, and even wildfire smoke drifting in from hundreds of miles away. For homeowners across Lititz, Manheim, Ephrata, Mount Joy, Elizabethtown, Willow Street,...

Once the concrete is poured back over an interior drainage system, it disappears. You won't see it again unless something goes wrong—and by then, the damage is already done. For homeowners across Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs, that's exactly why...

Water doesn't knock before it lets itself into a Philadelphia basement. Between our clay-heavy soil, rowhome foundations that sit close to the property line, and a rainy season that seems to stretch longer every year, groundwater finds a way in more often than most...

When the National Weather Service issues a Flash Flood Warning for Philadelphia, every homeowner should pay attention—especially if your home has a basement. Unlike ordinary rainstorms, flash floods can develop in minutes. Storm drains become overwhelmed, groundwater...