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7 Ways to Protect Your Home from Spring Melt Flooding

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Windsor-Essex has a strange relationship with Spring melt. Winter snow comes and goes. Temperatures fluctuate. We go back and forth between two weeks of rain and thaw and then two weeks of snow and ground freezing. Rather than one big Spring melt, we have multiple smaller ones.

This back and forth causes soil to become clogged with water, creating a tremendous amount of hydrostatic pressure. This hydrostatic pressure forces water through your foundation walls or the mortar holding cement blocks together. On top of this, Windsor has a high-water table, sitting only 2 meters below ground level in some areas. Water has few places to travel to, which is why it forces its way into your home through your foundation.