Green Haven is the neighborhood around the city's public golf course on Greenhaven Road, in the northwest part of Anoka toward the Ramsey line. The houses are 1960s and 1970s ramblers, split-levels, and a run of 1980s two-stories on the streets that back up to the fairways, all with full basements and most with finished lower levels. The ground is sand plain, flat and quick-draining on top, with the water table not far below and low wet spots along the course that hold water in spring.
Basements here flood from below when the water table comes up in April, and they flood from the pit when a storm knocks out power in July. Lots backing onto the course pick up runoff from the fairways in a heavy rain, and window wells on the low side of the house fill first.
This site puts Green Haven homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider. The provider meters the lower level before deciding what comes down.
A finished lower level that took water at the base of the walls after a storm is a basement flooding cleanup. A pump that lost power in the same storm is a sump pump failure cleanup. A tank in the utility corner that rusted through onto the carpet next door is a water heater leak cleanup.
Lots along the course were platted with drainage easements toward the low ground, and a rebuild that changes grading or moves a sump discharge line toward the course can draw questions. Drywall, plumbing, and wiring in the lower level need a permit from the City of Anoka before the walls close.
Call (763) 363-6050 and say which walls are wet and whether the pump is running. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Green Haven.
Water pumped out of a full basement under a 1960s rambler or split-level, then the block walls, carpet pad, and paneling metered for what stayed wet.
Cleanup after the pump quit in a spring thaw or a summer storm, and drying of the floor and the bottom of the walls the pit overflow reached.
Standing water pulled off concrete, carpet, and tile on any level of the house, with moisture readings taken as soon as the floor is clear.
Cleanup after a supply line froze in a rim joist, a garage wall, or a cold corner of the basement in January and split when the thaw came.
Air movers and dehumidifiers run against daily readings until the block, framing, and drywall in a cold Minnesota basement reach their dry target.
Wet attic insulation, ceilings, and exterior walls dried after an ice dam backed meltwater under the shingles or a storm tore the roof open.
The tank in the utility corner let go and the basement floor, the nearest finished wall, and the boxes along it are wet and need to be pumped and dried.
Contaminated water that came up the floor drain during a river crest or a heavy rain removed, with the carpet and drywall it touched cut out and the floor cleaned.