Water Damage Restoration in Rice Lake, MN

Rice Lake is a long, shallow lake in the south-central part of Maple Grove, south of Bass Lake Road and east of Interstate 494, with a west bay and an outlet that carries its water toward Bass Creek. The neighborhoods around it are among the older ones in the city: ramblers and split-levels from the 1970s on the lake lots, with 1980s two-stories filling the ground to the north. Lots here are flatter and wetter than most of Maple Grove, and the lake's name tells you what grew in the shallows before the houses came.

Shallow lakes have wide margins, and the basements built near them sit in ground that stays saturated from the March thaw into June. The 1970s ramblers have block foundations that weep at the mortar joints when the water table is up, and their original sump systems have been replaced several times. A long wet spell, such as June 2014 with its 11.36 inches at the airport, keeps the pumps here running for the whole month.

This site puts Rice Lake homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider. The provider meters the block wall behind the paneling, not just the carpet.

Rice Lake water damage behind a block wall

A rec room that took water through the block in a wet spring is a basement flooding cleanup, and the crew reads the wall at several heights. A pit that overflowed when the power went out is a sump pump failure cleanup. A warm spot on the slab with a higher water bill is a leak detection job before it is anything else.

The library on the other side of the freeway

The Hennepin County Library runs the Maple Grove branch a few minutes up the road, and its local history shelf holds the plat maps that show how much of the Rice Lake margin was wetland before 1970. Rebuild permits for the neighborhood go through the City of Maple Grove, and the city's records show what has been pulled on a lot before.

Call (763) 314-1771 and describe what you found. An independent local water damage provider serving Rice Lake picks up the job.