The Culprit was a Root
On Sunday my back door neighbor had a problem with water running into her cellar and not going down the drain. The cellar was flooding. Today when I was out back with Rusty, she was out in her yard doing clean up from the flooding.
The pumber found that the drain was plugged completely with a big root from the tree in her front yard. She showed me. It was a root about 9 feet long, with lots of little tributaries coming off it.
In our area, all of our cellars are damp. When we moved in, there was a moat next to our indoor cellar walls. It was always dank. My husband worked on the cellar, making improvements, and also put in a dehumidifier and we no longer have the moat. However, there are times of the year, like springtime, or heavy rains, when water still runs in through the walls and it's imperative to have good drainage down there. It took the plumber three hours to find and remove the culprit that caused the water problem for my neighbor.
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