{"id":330896,"date":"2017-10-26T10:55:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T10:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=357ee4f596a18d5d5d3d73c70f92235a"},"modified":"2017-10-26T10:55:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T10:55:58","slug":"water-tables-and-basements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/water-tables-and-basements\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Tables and Basements"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    How to use geologic, soil, and historical maps to keep your basement dry        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/water-tables-and-basements\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Groundwater%20map%204.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Groundwater map from the U.S. Geological Survey\" width=\"144\" height=\"145\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/water-tables-and-basements\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Web%20Soil%20Survey.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Screen shot of the Web Soil Survey web site\" width=\"144\" height=\"69\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/water-tables-and-basements\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Image%203.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Early Maps of Brattleboro Vermont\" width=\"144\" height=\"186\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/water-tables-and-basements\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Image%204_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Screen shot from the Chronicling America web site\" width=\"144\" height=\"91\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/water-tables-and-basements\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Foundation%20Checklist%202.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Foundation checklist by Max Schwartz\" width=\"144\" height=\"231\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>When we bought our home (built in 1907), I called in a favor from an electrician friend of mine to upgrade the 60-amp to a 100-amp service. Having worked together in New Hampshire where many of our projects were on sites full of ledge, he smirked when he told me: &ldquo;Here, you go try and drive this 12-foot copper grounding rod.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/water-tables-and-basements\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14694,10794,14695],"class_list":["post-330896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-foundation","tag-groundwater","tag-soils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}