Water Damage Restoration in Elk River, MN

Elk River is the Sherburne County seat, at the point where the Elk River drops into the Mississippi about eleven miles up Highway 10 from Anoka. The old town along Main Street and Jackson Avenue dates from the 1860s through the 1920s, with houses on stone and early block near the river and around Lake Orono, the impoundment behind the dam on the Elk. Around that core the city grew in rings from the 1970s onward: split-entries and split-levels near Highway 169, then 1990s and 2000s two-stories on the hills to the north and east, most with full basements, sump pits, and walkout lower levels.

Two rivers and a lake raise the water table under the old town every spring, and the Mississippi crests that reach Anoka reach Elk River first. On the newer hills the trouble is the pit, the discharge line frozen in March, and ice dams on north-facing eaves.

This site puts Elk River homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider. The provider meters before deciding what opens.

Elk River water damage from Lake Orono to the new hills

A walkout lower level that took water at the base of the downhill wall is a basement flooding cleanup. A pit that ran against ice until it quit is a sump pump failure cleanup. A line in the rim joist of a 1980s split-entry that froze at 20 below is a frozen pipe cleanup.

The county seat's own desk and the farm on the river

Rebuild permits inside the city go through the City of Elk River, not a Sherburne County office. On the Mississippi south of downtown, the Oliver Kelley Farm works an 1860s farmstead the way it was worked when the Grange was founded there, on river bottomland that shows every spring how high the water table climbs.

Call (763) 363-6050 and say which level is wet and whether the pump is running. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Elk River.