Fridley sits on the Mississippi at the south end of Anoka County, a city since 1949 that filled with ramblers and split-entries through the 1950s and early 1960s and then rebuilt a good part of itself after May 6, 1965, when two tornadoes crossed the city in one evening and destroyed or damaged hundreds of homes. Rice Creek enters the Mississippi here, Springbrook Creek drains the north end, and the flat sand between them is the same ground Blaine and Spring Lake Park sit on. Medtronic's operational headquarters and the Cummins engine plant are the big employers.
A Fridley rambler from 1958, or its 1966 replacement, has a block basement, a floor drain, copper through the rim joist, and a sewer service line that is now sixty years old. The streets nearest the river and the creeks have the highest groundwater in town.
This site puts Fridley homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider. The provider meters the block before anything comes off it.
Groundwater through the block in a wet spring is a basement flooding cleanup. A floor drain that backed up when the old service line clogged or the main surcharged in a storm is a sewer backup cleanup, and the carpet it touched leaves. A hose bib line in the garage wall that split in a deep freeze is a frozen pipe cleanup.
Springbrook Nature Center on 85th Avenue keeps three miles of trail and floating boardwalks through the wetlands that Springbrook Creek drains, and the neighborhoods around it share that water table. Medtronic runs its operational headquarters on Medtronic Parkway in the city, and a house that sits empty for a January travel week is the classic frozen-pipe case here as anywhere. A basement rebuild is permitted by the City of Fridley.
Call (763) 297-2728 and say whether the water came from the drain, the ground, or a pipe. An independent local water damage provider serving Fridley picks it up from there.
Groundwater or storm runoff pumped out of a Blaine basement, then the carpet pad, paneling, and block walls metered to find what stayed wet.
Cleanup after the pump quit during a snowmelt or lost power in a thunderstorm, and drying of the floor and walls the pit overflow reached.
Standing water pulled off concrete, carpet, and tile on any level of the house, followed by the first moisture readings on the walls.
Air movers and dehumidifiers run against daily readings until the slab, studs, and drywall come back to dry numbers in a closed-up Minnesota house.
Cleanup after a supply line froze in a rim joist, garage wall, or cold corner during a deep freeze and split, then drying of what the thaw soaked.
Wet attic insulation, ceilings, and exterior walls dried after an ice dam at the eave or a storm-torn roof let water into the house.
A tank that let go in the utility room, the water it spread across the basement floor, and the walls it reached pumped out and dried.
Contaminated water that came up a floor drain or basement fixture removed, the porous materials it touched taken out, and the slab cleaned and dried.