Water Damage Restoration in Riverside, GA

Riverside is the Atlanta neighborhood directly across the Chattahoochee from Smyrna and Vinings, on the Upper Westside in ZIP 30318, bounded by the river to the north, Jackson Parkway to the west, and the rail line to the south. James Spink sold the first lots in 1892, the rest of his estate went as 300 lots and 20 small farms in 1914, and a streetcar called the River Line ran out here until 1949. Atlanta annexed it in 1952. The housing is early 1900s frame cottages and bungalows on piers, 1940s and 1950s brick ranches on crawl spaces, and a run of new construction as the Westside filled in over the last fifteen years.

The river is the edge of the neighborhood and the reason for its name. In September 2009 the Chattahoochee came up over its banks on both sides, and the low streets near the water took it. Up the hill the losses are the ones every 1920s cottage has: a cast-iron drain that finally gave under the kitchen, a pier that settled and pulled a joint apart, a crawl space with two feet of clearance and a foot of water in it.

This site puts Riverside homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider. The provider meters the crawl space and the floor above it before deciding what opens.

Riverside water damage under a 1920s cottage

Water on the clay under a pier-and-beam house is a crawl space water extraction, and the low clearance means the work goes in through the access hatch. A cast-iron drain that let go under the kitchen is a water extraction upstairs and a crawl space job below. River water in a low lot is a creek flood cleanup.

The river, its keeper, and a City of Atlanta permit

The Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, which has watched over this stretch of river since 1994 from an office across the water in Smyrna, is where a sewage spill or a fish kill in the river gets reported. The PATH Foundation is building the trail connector that will tie the Silver Comet's Smyrna trailhead to the Westside and the Beltline through this part of the river corridor. Riverside is inside Atlanta, so rebuild permits go through the City of Atlanta, not Cobb County, and the drying itself is the same job on either bank.

Call (770) 830-3578 and say what is wet under or inside the house. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Riverside.