Water Damage Restoration in South St. Paul, MN

South St. Paul was incorporated in 1887 and grew up around the Union Stockyards, which ran until 2008 and gave the city its blocks of modest 1910s to 1950s houses on small lots above the Mississippi. The population peaked at about 25,000 in 1970 and sits near 20,800 today. The city sits at about 719 feet at the river and climbs the bluff to the west, with the old stockyard flats redeveloped into industrial parks along Concord Street.

A 1920s South St. Paul house has a block or stone basement, a floor drain, and an addition or two whose plumbing joined the original in ways nobody documented. The basement floods from the drain, not the walls.

This site connects South St. Paul homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider takes readings before writing the scope.

South St. Paul water damage in a stockyard-era house

A basement that took water up the floor drain during a downpour is a basement flooding cleanup, and the crew treats drain water as contaminated. An old supply line that froze in the back porch wall is a frozen pipe cleanup. Standing water on the basement floor from any source begins with water extraction.

The river below and the city hall above

The low ground along the river went under in April 1965 with the rest of the valley, and the flats along Concord Street are still the part of town that watches the river gauge each spring. Rebuild permits for plumbing, wiring, and framing go through the City of South St. Paul, which also keeps the record of past permits on a lot.

Call (651) 433-7589 and say whether the water came up the drain. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving South St. Paul.