I have a problem that I'm not sure has a solution.

[PILOON]

OK. got me going.
My home is a DIY and I thought I did things right.
Tarred the foundation, installed drains with 6 inches of crushed stone all around.
Made a pit for possible eventual sump pump.
For some 20 years no problems with a mere hint of water in that pit.
Just last year my better half shouted' there's water coming in'.
I quickly installed a pump and it now goes off every 30 mins.
Oh, and the water is like crystal clear and sweet smelling (not analyzed) but suspect it is consumable. (but close to septic installation).
My take is a vein has opened up over time.
OK, my pump handles it OK but we also have many power outages (end of the line situation, like 4 times this summer).
OK, I know I'm OK for about 2 hours B4 flooding but still studying solutions.
When home I have a house generator (but I need to start it) to handle things but kind of strapped to not moving about.

Hey, life is full of challenges!

I have an RV 12 volt pump that should handle that water in about 10 mins or so and propose a battery c/w trickle charger to act as standby. (still unaliasing that solution)

 

[Ken]

Is it possible that when the home was built all concrete building material not used was dumped into a pit and buried?
maybe several loads of sand or pee gravel to loosen the ground so moisture can evaporate.
ken

 

[LouNY]

Several years ago we ran into a strange one at the church that I was a member of and on the board of trustees.
The crawl space was always damp as it was one of the lower points especially after the state built up the highway in front.
When they did the buildup they installed a culvert but the inlet end was about 3 feet higher then the crawl space.
All of a sudden one summer the crawl space was always saturated and the mortared rock foundation wall and piers in the crawl space started settling.
After a bunch of talking we decided to dig a ditch along both sides and one end put in some drain tile and run them to a largr dry well tile with a pump to push
the water to the culvert.
While digging the ditch on the parking lot side of the church all of a sudden we had a stream of clear water running into the ditch,
got down in the ditch with a shovel and found an extremely old wooden water pipe, one of the houses in the Hamlet was originally a hotel and tavern
sometime in the early1800's all we could figure is that that water pipe came from up in the woods and was taping into a spring and no one was aware
of the pipes existence when the church was built and it had been out of service for who knows how long and had finally started leaking under the crawl space.
It was an interesting wooden pipe the section we dug up was about 3 ft long with a 3" OD and a 3/4" bore the section we found was a bored log with no
evidence of metal banding.
We ended up with dual pumps in that dry well set for different levels in case one failed and they pump quite a bit of water.

 

[two_bit_score]

Of course, that’s just the way things roll in “Lower Uncton”.

 

[coobie]

Do you have a backhoe?If not rent one and start digging to see what's there.

 

[Diggin It]

It got weirder today. Working in that area, filling in the trench around the pipe and conduit I just laid, I noticed Wolf Spiders running everywhere. Must have been 20 or 30 of them. Did I open a portal to somewhere?

 

[Fuddy1952]

It got weirder today. Working in that area, filling in the trench around the pipe and conduit I just laid, I noticed Wolf Spiders running everywhere. Must have been 20 or 30 of them. Did I open a portal to somewhere?

A picture or pictures would be interesting. Maybe approximate size and distance from house?

 

[Diggin It]

Not a battle I'm likely to win. This morning, the whole north side of the house was dripping wet with dew just as if there had been a sprinkler running. The lawn further out and downslope was also much more wet with dew than anywhere else in the yard. Something about that area being sheltered somehow.

A big fan to keep the air moving might help, but at what cost?

 

[stuckmotor]

there's something wrong with the soil deep down that won't allow drainage, maybe clay, because no matter what, the soil will eventually drain the water out, clay stops that..

I'm thinking the layer that won't allow water to pass could be channeling water from else were to the wet spot.

 

[stuckmotor]

Of course, that’s just the way things roll in “Lower Uncton”.

A spring at the top of a hill, an armadillo invasion, and now it's getting spidery.
I think I'd move somewhere normal like Hooterville.