Robert, We had this done by a company in NY. Block foundation on slab. Old house. Water seeped on south side of house and crept across entire basement floor to sumps on North side of house. New gutters, grading did not help at all. It was ground water. the more it rained the worse it got. Read story below Do not recall name of company but they came and jack hammer up floor, was about 4-6" thick. Made 12" deep trench below floor. Filled with crushed stone. Laid perforated 4" pipe. covered with gravel and cemented over. Left on sump in lowest corner with was the NE. Cost me $4500 in 1998.
Story: Got tired of wet basement. Would get really bad after heavy rains and big problem when power went out which it often did and I wasn't home to fire up a generator. One day I got pissed and drilled a 3/8" hole in southeast corner of basement floor. LOL. water spouted out like a garden hose about 6" high. I jammed a hose in it and run it to sump. Floor still wet, but noticably less water flow across floor. Went outside and dug hole right upside the foundation at that spot. Water level was 1 1/2 blocks high right outside house! Threw a submersible pump in and it ran 24/7 for days. Told a old timer friend about my problem looking for advice. He took me to historical society and showed me a aerial picture of our town when it was just swamp and dunes. LOL. there was and still is a stream (albeit now underground) that runs right thru where that house sits.
That house pumped sooo much water, like some others in that neighborhood, I made a irrigation system for my lawn from it. It never stopped pumping water even in the dry season. Might only go off once or twice a day. When we had flooding rains, it would go off every 10 minutes.
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