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[Elroy Jetson]

I'm glad to hear you're getting set up in Annapolis.

My grandparents had a sump pump in the basement of their home on high ground adjacent to Hancock Park in the very dry city of Los Angeles.

Just they and their neighbors watering their yards, with water imported from the far-away Colorado River and the Owens Valley was enough water to create the need for the sump pump. My grandfather had the walls and floor cemented and my Uncle had a chemistry lab there growing up. But they couldn't store boxes there because they'd get damp.

I suspect the craftsman home wasn't initially engineered with the basement. He probably dug out a small crawl-space, so there wasn't proper drainage channels built around the home. I do know he personally added the second floor to a one story home during the Great Depression. A good enough job with the same redwood timbers you couldn't tell.