rScotty
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- Joined
- Apr 21, 2001
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- Location
- Rural mountains - Colorado
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- Kubota M59, JD530, JD310SG. Restoring Yanmar YM165D
If the OP could determine if the aquifer is flowing in a specific direction, he might be able to intercept it upstream of his house and divert it. However, if it's like the area I live in, there's just water everywhere. It's about impossible to divert. All you can do is build a boat of a basement so the house floats, or like they do out on the flats of the former Grand Kankakee Marsh is built the house higher above the watershed and then mound dirt up around the basement walls that are sticking out of the ground 4-5'.
Yes, in fact here in Colorado in the mountain valleys we have our own version of the Grand Kankakee Marsh. Snow melt runs off the mountains and during the summer the ground water in the valleys rises to the top of the soil. So when we built our house we built on top of a compacted dirt mound that we built up especially for the house. It was two feet above grade. Then in that mound we dug and put the foundation down to bedrock - about 8 feet below original grade.
I thought I had covered all the bases, but then the flood came. It deposited sand and gravel for miles and now my house is slightly below the new grade.... and the new water level is now where the old ground surface grade level was before the flood. It's been a lesson in how geology forms valleys.....
rScotty