Woodstock is the first city north of the Cobb line in Cherokee County, incorporated in 1897 and, for most of the next ninety years, a railroad village of a few hundred people. Then it became among the quickest-growing suburbs in the country: 23,900 people in 2010, 35,000 by 2020. Downtown Woodstock was rebuilt around Main Street in the 2000s, and the subdivisions that fan out along Towne Lake Parkway, Bells Ferry Road, and Highway 92 are almost entirely 1990s and 2000s two-stories over basements and crawl spaces. The city sits lower than Kennesaw, at about 955 feet, in the bottom of the Noonday Creek and Little River drainage.
That low ground is the point. Noonday Creek rises near Kennesaw Mountain and runs north through Woodstock on its way to Lake Allatoona, and on September 21, 2009 it crested at 19.66 feet, well above its 2005 record, and put water into homes and streets across the south end of the city.
This site connects Woodstock homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider reads the house before the scope exists.
A basement in a Towne Lake subdivision that took water along the uphill wall is basement flooding cleanup. A pit that overflowed when the storm took the power is sump pump failure cleanup. A crawl space near the creek that stayed wet after the water went down is crawl space water extraction with the vapor barrier replaced.
A rebuild inside the city goes through the City of Woodstock, whose Greenprints trail plan runs along Noonday Creek and the Little River, the same low ground that floods. Water service outside the city comes from the Cherokee County water authority, which can shut a meter at the street.
Call (470) 574-4769 and tell us what you found. We put you through to a local water damage provider serving Woodstock.
Standing water pulled off a finished floor, a slab garage, or a lower level, then meter readings to show which rooms it reached.
Air movers and dehumidifiers set by the readings, running through a humid Georgia week until framing, subfloor, and drywall hit their targets.
Water pumped from under a Kennesaw house after clay runoff or a plumbing leak, then joists, insulation, and vapor barrier dealt with.
A finished or daylight basement that took on rain or a failed line, pumped out and dried behind the drywall and under the carpet pad.
The rooms a split supply line soaked, from a hard-freeze night to a failed fitting in the attic, pumped and dried once the valve is closed.
Attic insulation, ceilings, and walls dried after a summer thunderstorm or a tropical storm sent rain through the roof.
Cleanup after a basement pit overflowed in a power outage or a stuck float, with the wall system and flooring dried, not just the puddle.
A tank that failed in a garage, a basement corner, or a second-floor closet, and the flooring and ceiling below it dried out.