Basement Flooding part 2 (June 2012)

I call this part 2, because if you recall, our flooding started last year in July and now a year later we are finally finding it's source! My poor husband dug up part of our front lawn and also on the side of the house. Remember our ground is clay, so it is very hard to dig! He dug really deep and we still couldn't find where the water was leaking. Finally one day I went to check on the water heater and found that room was flooding as well. When I told Dave, he was able to quickly figure out that we had a spring under our house that was causing the flooding, not the sprinkling system. We found the hole in the ground that was put in our basement when the house was build was full of water! Dave put in a sump pump and the rest of our basement quickly dried up! We have pumped thousands and thousands of gallons of water out of our basement! I found out that my scuba teacher neighbor who lives at the end of the street has 3 sump pumps in his basement. Smart idea... So we are very grateful that it only cost $150 for a sump pump instead of thousands to get a plumber.