Emergency
Storm Surge & Tidal Flooding Wellington, FL
Surge and tidal water rise from the ground up and carry salt and silt with them. Anything porous they soaked is treated as contaminated. Outside water that rose into the building is treated as contaminated, and porous material it reached is removed. Salt left behind in materials keeps pulling water from the air, so it is cleaned out with the rest.
Switch off the air handler if it is dripping
Often needed alongside
- Emergency Water Extraction
Standing water removed before it soaks into slab, block and flooring - the first step after any failure, and the one humid air makes urgent.
- Wind-Driven Rain Intrusion
Wind pushes rain sideways through window frames, stucco and the base of the wall. The roof can hold and the house still take water.
- Sewer & Septic Backflow Cleanup
Heavy rain and a high water table can push sewage back through the lowest drain in the building. Clear or murky, it is handled as sewage.
Frequently asked questions
Who drains the land under a Wellington home?
The Acme Improvement District, created by the legislature in 1953 to drain the area and to build and keep canals and other drainage works, making it habitable for settlement and farming. Since the village incorporated in 1995, the district and the village have shared one governing board. Its system includes 91 miles of canals, 270 acres of detention lakes and stormwater pumps at nine sites.
After a storm, how does the canal behind a Wellington house empty?
North, in the end. Basin A, about 16 square miles between Southern Boulevard and Pierson Road, discharges into the C-51 West Canal through pumps near Southern Boulevard. Basin B, about 13.6 square miles to its south, drains into Basin A first. After an August storm, the canal behind a house rises until those structures and pumps carry the water on.
Why are Wellington's canals held lower in the wet season?
The district sets Basin A's canals at 11.0 feet in the wet season and 12.0 feet in the dry season, and Basin B's at 12.0 and 13.0. A lot backing onto a canal sees its water rise after each storm and fall again as the pumps work it down.
Each answer ties back to the Wellington overview.