Water damage restoration — Shoreline, WA
A good deal of Shoreline's drainage runs underneath it rather than across it, and that is not a figure of speech.
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Boeing Creek drains a watershed of roughly 11 square miles through Shoreline to Puget Sound. It is heavily modified along its course and in many places has been diverted into culverts. Its original headwaters were put into underground pipes, and the main stem now emerges from storm drain culverts at the intersection of Greenwood Avenue and Carlyle Hall Road — which is considered its source.
Why a buried creek matters to a homeowner. A watercourse running in pipes is a drainage system with a fixed capacity, carrying a catchment that was never designed around it. When a storm delivers more than the pipes can take, the water does not disappear — it backs up and surfaces wherever it can, which is often the lowest opening on somebody's property.
If water reaches your building during heavy rain and there is no plumbing failure to explain it, that is where it is coming from.
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- Is this the city's problem or mine?
- Depends where the water is coming from and what it passes through. Drainage on private property is generally the owner's. If a public culvert or drain looks involved, the city is the right first call.
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- Shoreline is in King County — do you still cover it?
- Yes. The same contractors work across the county line.