Clay that refuses to drain means water arrives slowly and stays. The pump is what finally moves it.
Water behaves differently on clay. It arrives slowly, it sits for a long time, and it leaves very slowly on its own. Under a Lizella house that means the crawl space can hold water for a week or more after the rain that put it there has been forgotten.
The slow arrival is why people underestimate it. There is no dramatic flood, just ground that is wet far more often than it is dry. A pump paired with stone packed drainage changes that, because the stone gives the water a path far easier than the surrounding clay and the pump gives it an exit.
We set a basin at the low point, run drainage in a stone bed so water actually reaches it, size the pump for the sustained volume it will see, and run the discharge well out onto the property. On acreage there is usually room to place it where clay will not carry it back toward the house.
The scope is fixed before we start on a Lizella home, so nothing gets added once the crew is underneath.

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