Clay over rock keeps water in the top few feet, and rural acreage gives the discharge somewhere real to go.
Under Orchard Hill the clay layer sits on rock, so water soaking in stops going down and travels sideways through the top few feet of soil. That is the depth a crawl space occupies, which is why water arrives here without any obvious surface path.
On rural acreage the discharge side is easy. There is room to run a line far from the house, and often enough fall to let a gravity drain do part or all of the work. Where the ground around the house is level, a basin and pump provide the exit.
We measure the site, decide between gravity and a pump on the evidence, install stone packed drainage to bring water to whichever it is, and route the discharge to ground that falls away. On open pier foundations we look at enclosing the perimeter as part of the same job, since that is what makes the rest of the system hold.
The scope is fixed before we start on an Orchard Hill home, so nothing gets added once the crew is underneath.

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