Water Damage Restoration in Portsmouth, RI

Portsmouth covers the north half of Aquidneck Island from Middletown to the Mount Hope Bridge, plus Prudence and Hog islands out in the bay. It was founded in 1638, a year before Newport, and it stayed farms and stone walls until the subdivisions came after the Second World War. About 17,900 people live here now in a mix of 1700s farmhouses, 1920s summer plats along the Sakonnet River, and 1950s through 1980s ranches, capes, and colonials off East Main and West Main roads.

The water pattern follows the shore. Island Park and Common Fence Point on the Sakonnet side and Melville on the bay side flood from the sea, and Island Park took the worst of the 1938 hurricane on the whole island. Inland, the postwar houses on block basements take groundwater in a wet spring, and the farmhouses have the same fieldstone cellars as Newport with more ledge under them.

This site puts Portsmouth homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider.

Portsmouth water damage from the Sakonnet side to the bay side

River or bay water in a house on the low plats is a storm surge and coastal flood cleanup. Groundwater in a farmhouse cellar is a stone cellar flooding cleanup, and in a 1970s block basement it starts with water extraction and ends with structural drying.

Two water systems and one town hall

Rebuild permits go through the Town of Portsmouth, which runs its own building office. Most of the town's houses get their water from the Portsmouth Water and Fire District, a separate district that buys treated water wholesale from Newport, so a main break or a pressure change on the island can show up in a Portsmouth kitchen.

Call (401) 560-5802 and say whether the water is salt or fresh and what kind of foundation the house has. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Portsmouth.