Water Damage Restoration in Littlerock, WA

Littlerock is a rural community south of Tumwater where the prairie meets the foot of the Black Hills, along Littlerock Road between the Black River and the Capitol State Forest. It has a school, a store, a grange, and a few hundred houses spread across the prairie and up the timber roads: 1900s farmhouses along the river, 1970s and 1980s ranch houses on two- to ten-acre lots, and manufactured homes on wells and septic. The Mima mounds, the strange grassy humps that cover the prairie here, start at the edge of town.

The prairie soil is deep gravel and drains fast, so the houses on the mounds and the high ground stay drier than most of the county. The Black River is another matter. It drains Black Lake and the wet country south of Tumwater and moves slowly across the prairie to the Chehalis at Rochester, and it spread across the bottomland along Littlerock Road in the storms of December 2007, January 2009, and December 2015. Up the timber roads at the edge of the forest the ground is clay under the fir, and crawl spaces there fill from the hillside every wet season. The arctic weeks of December 2021 and December 2022 froze well lines and pressure tanks in unheated pump houses along every road out here.

This site puts Littlerock homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider who drives down from Olympia and Tumwater.

Littlerock water damage on the prairie and under the hill

Brown water from the Black River in a farmhouse on the bottomland is a storm and river flood cleanup. A crawl space under a ranch house at the foot of the Black Hills that fills from the hillside every January is a crawl space water extraction, and the discharge hose goes downhill toward the prairie. A well line that froze in a pump shed and split is a burst pipe cleanup.

The mounds and the lake

The Mima Mounds Natural Area Preserve protects more than seven hundred acres of the mounded prairie on the edge of town, and the gravel under the mounds is the same fast-draining ground the prairie houses sit on. A few miles east, Millersylvania State Park wraps around Deep Lake in old-growth fir, and its trails are the standard for what the wet timber ground at the edge of the prairie looks like in February. Rebuild permits for a Littlerock house go through the county's desk in Olympia; the drying needs none.

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