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Storm & Flood Damage Recovery in Paterson, NJ
From wind-driven rain to flash flooding, crews board up, extract, and dry the structure, then document everything for the claim. Storm and flood recovery starts with extraction and structural drying, then documenting the loss for an insurance or flood claim. Because floodwater carries soil and debris, affected porous materials are removed rather than dried, and the structure is re-checked as it dries.
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Frequently asked questions
The mills are museums now. Why would a raceway still wet a cellar?
The channel was never filled to a dry standard. Raceways around the falls were cut below street grade to take the Passaic's power, and they remain a permanent water table against the cellars built next to them. A quiet mill leaves a wet race.
Newark is downstream. Is this just the same combined-sewer story?
No. Newark's moisture path is a paved combined system that surcharges; Paterson's is the Passaic and the mill races at the falls. Same August humidity region, two different entries into the cellar, and a Newark floor-drain reverse-flow is the wrong picture for a raceway block here.
We are up the hill, not in the falls district. Out of the river?
Out of the raceways, not out of August. The hill sheds onto the next wall down, and mill-era housing up there still shares party walls. You trade a canal water table for a gravity and a shared-structure problem.