Water Damage Restoration in Washington Park, RI

Washington Park is the southeast corner of Providence, between Roger Williams Park and the Providence River, bounded by Allens Avenue and the Port of Providence on the water side and the Cranston line at the south. It was built out in the 1910s through the 1930s with bungalows, two-families, and small colonials for families who worked the port and the mills, on stone and block foundations with basements, on flat land that sits only a few feet above the river.

That flat land is the problem. The 1938 hurricane and Hurricane Carol on August 31, 1954, pushed the bay up Allens Avenue and into the streets behind it, and Fields Point at the neighborhood's edge is where the city's storm surge comes ashore. The combined sewers under Washington Park back up through basement floor drains in a heavy rain, and groundwater comes through stone walls every spring. The February 2023 cold snap split pipes in enclosed porches across the neighborhood.

We connect Washington Park homeowners and landlords with an independent local water damage provider by phone. You describe the problem; the provider decides what to look at first.

Washington Park water damage, low ground near the river

A floor drain that backed up in a storm is sewage cleanup, and in a combined-sewer neighborhood it is not rare. Groundwater or surge water in a basement is basement flooding cleanup. A second-floor bath in a two-family that leaks into the ceiling below is ceiling water damage repair.

Where to call in Washington Park

Save The Bay has its headquarters on Fields Point at the neighborhood's waterfront edge and tracks the bay's storm surge and water quality, which is the water that ends up in Washington Park's cellars. Rebuild permits go through the Providence Department of Inspection and Standards.

Call (401) 443-9638 now and tell us what you see. We connect you with a local water damage provider serving Washington Park.