As a drainage contractor Ledyard CT homeowners have called for 40 years, Sparkle Lake Services is based right here in town at 411 Colonel Ledyard Highway. Bill Spicer has been running this company out of Ledyard since 1986, serving the rest of New London County from a shop that sits in the middle of the town we know best.
We handle yard drainage Ledyard CT properties need, basement waterproofing, French drains, sump pump systems, footing drain repair, regrading, and the excavation work that goes with all of it. If your basement is wet or your yard won't dry out, we'll come look and give it to you straight.
Ledyard is home ground for us. The shop has been at 411 Colonel Ledyard Highway since the company started, and Bill knows the back roads, the soil types, and the drainage patterns of this town better than anyone. That matters because Ledyard's terrain is not easy. It's hilly, it's wooded, and a lot of properties sit on sloped lots where water naturally runs toward the foundation instead of away from it. If the original builder didn't account for that, and many didn't, you end up with a basement that gets wet every spring and every heavy rain.
The other piece of the puzzle here is land history. A lot of Ledyard's residential neighborhoods sit on what used to be farm fields. Those fields had their own drainage patterns, stone-lined field drains, swales running between pastures, low spots that always stayed wet. When the land got subdivided and houses went in, those old patterns didn't disappear. They just got buried, and now they intersect with modern foundations in ways that cause recurring seepage. We've dug up plenty of forgotten stone drains in Ledyard yards and figured out how to work with them or replace them properly.
Then there's the Connecticut winter. The freeze-thaw cycle works on every foundation in town, opening hairline cracks a little wider each year and pushing water into basements that were dry a decade ago. Combined with runoff from the Pawcatuck River watershed and the wooded hillsides above so many Ledyard neighborhoods, it adds up to steady work for us. After 40 years here, we've seen pretty much every version of it.
Stop by the shop on Colonel Ledyard Highway or use our contact page to request a free quote in Ledyard.