Water Damage Restoration in Centredale, RI

Centredale is the village at the heart of North Providence, where Smith Street, Waterman Avenue, and Mineral Spring Avenue meet on the Woonasquatucket River. It was a mill village first, and the housing shows it: 1890s and 1900s two- and three-families near the river, 1920s bungalows on the side streets, and 1950s capes on the hills toward Fruit Hill, most on stone or block foundations with basements that were never meant to be finished.

The river is the problem. On March 30 and 31, 2010, the Woonasquatucket went well over its banks after more than eight inches of rain in two days, and the low streets in Centredale and downstream in Olneyville flooded. The old Centredale Manor mill site on the riverbank is a federal Superfund site, which is a reminder that river water here carries more than mud. The rest of the time the issue is groundwater through old walls in a wet spring and pipes that freeze in porches in a hard February.

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

Centredale water damage, river and basement

River water or groundwater in a cellar is a basement flooding cleanup job, and river water here is treated as contaminated. A second-floor bathroom leak in a two-family is ceiling water damage repair for the tenant below. Once the water is out, structural drying is what gets a stone-walled basement back to dry.

The Woonasquatucket and the North Providence permit desk

The Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council works the river from Smithfield down through Centredale to Olneyville and keeps track of its flood history and its cleanup. Rebuild permits go through the North Providence building office.

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