Water Damage Restoration in Arlington, RI

Arlington is the northeast corner of Cranston, the streets along Cranston Street and Dyer Avenue between the Providence line and the old Cranston Print Works. The Print Works ran on the Pocasset River from 1807 until it closed in 2009, and the neighborhood was built for its workers: 1880s mill cottages near the river, 1900s through 1920s two- and three-families on the streets climbing toward Park Avenue, on stone and block foundations with cellars.

The Pocasset is the flood risk. On March 30 and 31, 2010, it went over its banks at the Print Works dam and flooded the low streets on both the Cranston and Providence sides. The rest of the year the problems are groundwater through stone cellar walls, combined sewers that back up through floor drains in a heavy rain, and a century-old plumbing stack that sends a third-floor leak through two ceilings. The February 2023 cold snap split pipes in porches and unheated stairwells here.

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

Arlington water damage, river street and three-decker

River water or groundwater in a cellar is a basement flooding cleanup job, and river water here is treated as contaminated. A leak from the apartment above is ceiling water damage repair for the tenant below. A floor drain that backed up in a storm is sewage cleanup.

Permits and paperwork for an Arlington two-family

Arlington is part of the City of Cranston, so rebuild permits go through the city's Building Inspection department. Landlords should document each unit the water reached separately, with photos, before the crew starts removing material.

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