When the ground cannot absorb any more water you are, in effect, below the water table. Since it's too late to wrap waterproofing under and around the basement floor there is no sure cure. Exposing the entire foundation and waterproofing with a sprayed on material and then a membrane is the best that can be done and is still not 100%. But when you get more than a years worth of rain in a month you'll always be at risk. I note an educational site on Kansas weather says: "In central and western Kansas rainfall is seldom enough to cause serious damage." Wet comfort indeed.

You can do an immediate repair with hydraulic cement. A longer-term repair might involve the use of foam. Some kind of plumber!

Sorry about your flood. I, too, live in SE Wisc and can attest that we had something greater than a 100 yrs flood. It topped the last 100 yrs flood of a few years ago. If your basement walls, footing, and footing drains are proeperly designed and built, then you water flood is attributable about 100% to the sump pump. When the sump pump does not have enough capacity - or in your case it quit- to remove the water as fast as it comes in, the water outside the basement wall will rise over the footings, soak the bottom cinder blocks and continue to rise to grade level. If the sump pump quits, sometimes it better to have the basement flood. If something is blocking the water flow from outside the walls to the sump crock, then water pressure builds on the walls - think of the basement as a concrete boat. This pressure can cause a wall to buckle inward. This hazard is most prevalent for a newly constructed basement without any house over it. The weight of the house helps to stabalize the walls and makes it harder to push the walls in. In the usual construction, a house is not connected to the basement walls; It merely sits on the walls. When a basement floods, it equalizes the hydraulic pressure on both sides of the wall. When I witnessed the amount of water that fell in the past week, I question the usefulness of a battery operated sump pump. It would have to have a hugh battery bank to keep it running as long as needed. In a storm like this one, a power loss can last 1 day or more. WE-Energies was pretty good about getting power restored in a timely fashion, but they had only so many crews and they worked off a priority list - the most critical came first. A home owners flooded basement does not rate as high as a police and fire station, or a hospital and traffic lights. Last week, hardware stores in Milwaukee reported a run on sump pumps and emergency pumps. They sold out. By your description, you site design seems ok. Water drains have been designed to move the water away from the house. The sump water should be routed more than 10 feet away from the house and to a location that drains away from the house, else the water merely comes back and is recirculated. My advice to you is to replace your sump pump with a quality unit. You may wish to consider a sealed, submersible one, one that can run under water. In my house, my pump does not run very often. It may go a couple of years before turning on, and that can be bad too. 5 years ago, it was finally called on to run and was frozen by corrosion. I was a busy little boy for about an 1/2 hour while I took the pump impeller housing apart to un-jam the pump and get it back in the crock before water started coming over the top of the crock. I barely made it. As part of home maintence, one should run the pump twice a year to insure that it is in working order. if there is no water in the crock, put some in for the test. I watched a house next door being refurbished, It is owned by a trust of siblings who inherited it. They had a damp basement wall problem. As part of the upgrade, dirt was dug away from the absement wall and a waterpproof sheet was glued to the outside of the wall down to a depth of about 5 feet. This week was a test on that job. Not everyone can afford one, but a backup alternator is good. Have an electrican arrange the circuits to run the sump, refrigerator, freezer, a couple of lights, and the telephone off the alternator. Size the alternator to carry the loads mention above plus a margin. Again, this unit will require periodic maintence to stay in working order. Gasoline engines that sit for long periods of time can become inoperative. And one must have enough fuel on hand to run the alternator for a few hours. Hopefully, replacement fuel can be procured during the emergency.

You need to find out who installs sump pumps in your area (probably the plumbing companies) and get some estimates. However, you will so need a permit, and the installation can get complicated if there isn't any easy way to run a PVC line out through the foundation. Many cities also have restrictions on where you can dump groundwater. You also need to check all your downspouts to ensure they are dumping rainwater at least 6-8 feet away from your foundation, and that its running toward the storm sewer. If you do not have sufficient drainage to keep water away from your foundation, you can have a company install french drains or other drainage pipe that can absorb or reroute the water and keep it out of the basement. Bruce