Water Damage Restoration in Boston Harbor, WA

Boston Harbor is the community at the tip of the peninsula north of Olympia, where Budd Inlet opens into Dana Passage and the ferry to Seattle once left from the dock. Boston Harbor Road runs seven miles up the east shore of the inlet from Squaxin Park to get there, past Burfoot Park and the beach communities at Gull Harbor and Zangle Cove. The houses are the South Sound mix: 1920s and 1930s summer cabins on the beach that were winterized and added onto over the decades, 1960s and 1970s ramblers on the bluff lots off Boston Harbor Road, and larger 1990s and 2000s houses on the acreage between the road and Woodard Bay. Most are on wells or a small community water system and on septic.

The peninsula is glacial till on top of clay, and the bluffs above the inlet are the wettest ground in the area: winter rain saturates the fir forest, runs across the yard, and comes into the crawl space at the vents or into a daylight basement at the uphill wall. The beach cabins sit on posts and pier blocks a foot off sand and gravel that the tide reaches at a king tide. The December 2022 and January 2022 king tides put salt water under the lowest cabins on the harbor, and the arctic weeks of December 2021 and December 2022 froze exposed lines under the same houses.

This site connects Boston Harbor homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider looks under the house first.

Boston Harbor water damage, from the bluff to the beach

Salt water under a beach cabin after a king tide is a storm and river flood cleanup, and anything porous it touched comes out. A crawl space under a bluff rambler that fills when the yard saturates in a December storm is a crawl space water extraction. A line that froze and split under a cabin in the arctic week after Christmas 2021 is a burst pipe cleanup.

The marina and the bay

Everything out here is unincorporated, so rebuild permits go through the county's desk in Olympia; the drying itself needs no permit. The community's center is the Boston Harbor Marina, with its public dock, boat launch, and store, which is also where the harbor's tide gauge reads highest in a winter storm. Around the corner to the east, the Woodard Bay Natural Resources Conservation Area protects nine hundred acres of shoreline where the old log dump has become a heron and seal colony, and its wet forest is the same ground the houses along the road are built on.

Call (360) 364-8868 and say whether the water came from the tide, the ground, or a pipe. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Boston Harbor.