Riverdale is the north end of Coon Rapids along Highway 10 and Round Lake Boulevard, where the Riverdale Village shopping district went up in the late 1990s and 2000s on what had been farm fields and gravel. The neighborhoods around it are older than the stores: 1970s and 1980s split-entries and two-stories toward Northdale Boulevard, and 1990s two-stories and townhomes filling in toward the Andover line. Nearly all have full basements and sump pits, and the townhomes often share a sump and a drain system among several units.
This is sand plain ground, flat and fast draining, with the water table close underneath. Sump pumps run constantly in April, and a power outage during a summer storm turns a finished lower level into a wet one within hours. Townhome sump systems fail for the whole row at once.
This site puts Riverdale homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider. The provider meters the lower level first.
A shared sump that quit is a sump pump failure cleanup, often for more than one unit. A finished lower level with wet carpet and drywall around the room is a basement flooding cleanup. Once the wet material is out, structural drying runs equipment against daily readings.
Mercy Hospital on Coon Rapids Boulevard is the north metro's Level II trauma center and the largest employer in the area, and Anoka-Ramsey Community College sits on Mississippi Boulevard above the river. Rebuild permits for a Riverdale lower level go through the City of Coon Rapids.
Call (763) 363-6050 and say which units or rooms are wet. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Riverdale.
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.