Water Damage Restoration in Tumwater, WA

Tumwater is the oldest American settlement on Puget Sound. Michael Simmons and George Bush brought their party to the falls of the Deschutes in 1845, and the town that grew there ran on the river: sawmills first, then the Olympia Brewing Company from 1896 until the brewery closed in 2003. The old town sits along the river below the falls, with 1900s and 1920s houses on Capitol Boulevard and the bluff above Tumwater Historical Park. Tumwater Hill to the west filled in with 1970s and 1980s ramblers and split-levels, and the flats south along Old Highway 99 and Trosper Road hold newer subdivisions on the prairie.

The Deschutes is the water that matters here. It drains the Bald Hills and the timber country south of Rainier, and it comes up fast when a warm atmospheric river melts snow onto saturated ground. The river flooded the valley in February 1996, December 2007, and January 2009, and the low ground along Tumwater Valley and the golf course goes under first. Above the river, the wet-season problem is the same as Olympia's: crawl spaces on glacial till and old pipes.

This site connects Tumwater homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. Readings first, then the scope.

Tumwater water damage along the Deschutes and up the hill

A daylight basement or a low crawl space near the river that took brown water in a January flood is a storm and river flood cleanup, and everything porous the river touched comes out. A soft floor in a 1920s house on Capitol Boulevard with no visible leak is a leak detection job, and the crawl space is the first place the crew looks. A tank that let go in a Tumwater Hill garage is a water heater leak cleanup.

The city's permit desk and the falls

Rebuild permits after a water loss go through the City of Tumwater, which also runs the water and storm utilities and answers for a street drain that is backing up. The drying itself needs no permit.

The falls that named the town drop the Deschutes eighty feet in a quarter mile through Brewery Park at Tumwater Falls, which the Olympia Tumwater Foundation has owned and kept open since 1962. In flood years the park's lower trail is the first public place in the county to go under.

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