If you have excessive moisture entering your basement through the walls or floor, it’s likely a groundwater issue. The first step in remedying this situation should be examining your gutters, ...

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GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Garth Kruger is taking the long view on tile drainage, aka "agricultural subsurface drainage" and "subsurface water management." Though tile drainage might not make great financial ...

I often think about how blessed I am to have worked on older homes long before I started building new ones. It provides me with a benchmark to judge modern building methods and products. Take the ...

Waterproofing your basement involves a lot more than simply painting a waterproofing product on your basement walls. And a truly waterproofed basement, that includes a drain tile system and a sump ...

Counterintuitive as it may seem, farm fields with the best tile drainage systems generally produced the highest yields during last year's drought, area farmers and other experts say. “I saw that right ...

URBANA – Tile drainage in the Mississippi Basin is one of the great advances of the 19th and 20th centuries, allowing highly productive agriculture in what was once land too wet to farm. In fact, ...

Researchers from Iowa State University have partnered with Michigan State University to develop a robot that would detect nitrates and monitor tile health to help farmers keep their land productive.