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Well ANN99... You just posed the $64,000 Question. Remember the words from Raide Jadallah, "For every action there is a reaction"? All construction involves figuring out drainage away from a building structure...sewer, landscape, water shed, even the slope of your patios & street gutters, rain gutters, etc. Water, can make life wonderful. Conversely, in the wrong place it can make life a living hell. While most of us would not stay in a hotel with buckets catching water coming from the ceilings or underground parking that was beginning to look like a cave with stalactites and weeping walls... the residents were accepting it as an negotiable condition. "Hey, they had pumps, they were gonna' fix it, they had meetings, they had budgets, they had assessments, they had reports, they had photos, they were diverting water from falling on cars... " Oh geez lahweez!! The handwriting was literally on the walls in capital letters.
I keep thinking about a neighbor who had a huge tree in his yard. Too big, too close. He needed to have it cut down but was complaining about the cost. Speeding down the track of denial, a storm dropped a lot of rain, followed by strong winds. Guess what happened?
But I digress....wonder where the water will flow now?
I was thinking the same thing. Just like that computer graphic that showed the possible domino effect that may have started with compromised concrete columns in the garage area, now that gaping hole filling with water could compromise buildings near it. There is no bedrock, AFAIK, under the buildings.