Unpleasant discovery, but quite timely from the sounds of it. Mold is a real problem in Alaska's Interior; you don't even close in a post-and-beam crawl space without some kind of vapor barrier up here.

I wonder if some kind of french drain outside the basement might help manage that amount of water; that's a lot of dirtwork tho'. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" /> Doesn't sound like you've got a lot of rock in the soil.

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