Water Damage Restoration in Maricopa County, AZ

Maricopa County sits inside one of the most engineered flood-control networks in the country. The Flood Control District of Maricopa County (FCDMC) monitors hundreds of washes, retention basins, and gauges because our desert hydrology is unforgiving: bone-dry channels can become moving water in minutes when a monsoon cell parks overhead. That system protects a lot of property, but it cannot stop water once a storm overwhelms local drainage and pushes into homes and businesses.

The clearest reminder was September 8, 2014, when a 100-year-plus rain event dropped record rainfall across the county in a single morning, flooded freeways, and triggered a county-area state of emergency. We build our monsoon flood emergency response around exactly that kind of event — flash flooding, backed-up drains, and Category 2 and 3 water intrusion — with crews staged to move the moment the washes start running.

From our Tempe base we reach the Salt River corridor, the Loop 101 and Loop 202 ring, and the neighborhoods around Sky Harbor within the metro core quickly, and we regularly run longer hauls to the far suburbs when a big storm hits. Our trucks know the difference between a Scottsdale hillside runoff problem and a low-lying Laveen or Guadalupe drainage backup — the county is not one thing, and neither is its water damage.

One county-wide monsoon night sticks with us: a single storm cell flooded a Tempe garage, backed up a drain in a west Mesa ranch home, and pushed runoff into an Ahwatukee living room, all within a few hours. Because we dispatch centrally, we handled all three before the next morning. That is the advantage of a crew positioned in the middle of Maricopa County rather than tucked in one corner of it.