Water Damage Restoration in Austell, GA

Austell incorporated in 1885 where the Georgia Pacific Railway split its Birmingham and Chattanooga lines, and two Norfolk Southern lines still diverge at the center of town. It is a small city of about 7,700 people in south Cobb, and it is the place the September 2009 flood is remembered hardest. Sweetwater Creek, which passes north and then east of downtown on its way to the Chattahoochee, hit a peak flow of 31,500 cubic feet per second on September 22, 2009, a level with less than a 1-in-500 chance in any year, and it destroyed homes and businesses across the low side of the city.

Austell's housing is older than Kennesaw's: mill-era cottages and 1950s ranches on piers and slabs near downtown, with 1980s and 1990s subdivisions on the ridges above the creek.

This site connects Austell homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider reads the house before any scope goes on paper.

Austell water damage, floodplain and ridge

Water that stood under a pier-foundation cottage after the creek came up is crawl space water extraction, and outside floodwater changes what can be dried and what gets removed. A slab ranch that took water across the floor is water extraction with every wall metered at the base. A subdivision house on the ridge with a split line in the garage is burst pipe water damage.

Austell's floodplain office and the park on the creek

The City of Austell keeps a stormwater and floodplain management office and still posts its photographs of the 2009 flood. Sweetwater Creek State Park, 2,549 acres just downstream in Lithia Springs, holds the ruins of the New Manchester mill and shows how much water that creek can carry.

Call (470) 574-4769 and tell us what you found. We put you through to a local water damage provider serving Austell.