Water Damage Restoration in Ken Lake, WA

Ken Lake is the neighborhood on Olympia's west side built around the small lake of the same name, south of Black Lake Boulevard and the Capital Mall and west of Kenyon Street toward the city limit. The lake was a private fishing pond in the woods until the 1960s, when a developer laid out the streets around it and sold lots for the ramblers, daylight ramblers, and split-levels that went up through the 1970s. Most of the houses are on gentle slopes with a view of the water or the firs, with a two-car garage, a low-pitched roof, and a lot that has grown a good deal shadier in fifty years.

A lake in a neighborhood is a water table you can see. Ken Lake rises and falls with the winter rain, and the crawl spaces of the houses nearest the shore sit only a foot or two above it from November to March. The ground is glacial till that drains slowly, the ramblers were built with vents at grade, and a saturated lawn drains straight under the house in a November atmospheric river. The garage water heater shares a wall with a bedroom, and the hose bib on the north side froze in the arctic weeks of December 2021 and December 2022 like every other rambler in the city.

This site puts Ken Lake homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider who meters before anyone cuts.

Ken Lake water damage a few feet above the water table

A crawl space near the shore that holds water every January is a crawl space water extraction, and the drying under the house runs longer here than on the hill. A garage tank that let go against a bedroom wall is a water heater leak cleanup. A frozen hose bib that split inside a garage wall is a burst pipe cleanup.

The college down the road

The neighborhood's nearest institution is South Puget Sound Community College, whose main campus on Mottman Road opened on the west side in the 1980s and now teaches several thousand students, some of whom rent the ramblers along the lake. Rebuild permits go through the city's Permit Center; the pumping and drying need none. If the crew pumps a crawl space here, ask them to run the discharge to the street and not toward the lake.

Call (360) 364-8868 and say which part of the house is wet and how close it is to the water. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Ken Lake.