On Aug 3, 9:26 am, dpb wrote:

It's certainly not unheard of for water tables to be high enough in
portions of IA for there to be high enough water tables to cause the
need for sump pumps.


I lived out there for a while in a house with a basement. Even in dry
weather the sump pump would run probably 50% of the time. The whole
neighborhood was like that. During snow melt or rain, the pump could
barely keep up.