"JimL" wrote in message
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On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:34:10 GMT, "Mike" wrote:

Your damp floor indicates that you have minor seepage, so I'd dig as
far as I could and call it a day. In a perfect world the drainage
would be about a foot beneath the basement floor.

Of course, the house should never have been built with drainage
moving toward the house. So all you are doing is giving the ground
water a quick escape away from the house.

The 100 year flood plain solution is a sump pump in your basement.

The house is 70 years old