West Lakeland Township is the rural strip between Woodbury and the St. Croix river towns, a township that has stayed a township on purpose: large residential lots, private wells, septic systems, and no municipal water or sewer. The houses are mostly 1980s through 2000s custom builds on two to five acres, two-stories and walkouts with full basements, detached shops and barns, and long driveways that a crew has to find in the dark. Interstate 94 runs along the south edge and Manning Avenue along the west.
A township house floods like a Woodbury house with two differences. The shutoff is the well pump breaker, and the water the crew pumps out has to go somewhere other than the drain field.
A West Lakeland call goes to an independent local water damage provider who will find the driveway. The provider asks about the well and the septic before the truck leaves.
A walkout whose pit quit in a June storm while the family was at the lake is sump pump failure cleanup, and the water had the weekend to spread. A supply line in a detached shop or a garage wall that froze in a cold snap is frozen pipe cleanup with the pump breaker as the first move. After either one, structural drying on a septic lot means the dehumidifier condensate is piped outside, not to a drain.
The township has no building department of its own, and a basement rebuild here goes through Washington County rather than a city desk. The county also runs the well and septic programs that a drying job on a rural lot has to work around, and a well that went bad after the flood is the county's question as much as the crew's.
Call (651) 461-4569 and tell us what you see. We put you through to a local water damage provider serving West Lakeland Township.
Water pulled off the slab and out from under the carpet pad in a finished lower level, then the walls metered before any drywall comes off.
Cleanup after the pit overflowed in a storm or a power outage, with the water gone and the finished basement dried on readings.
A stained or sagging ceiling under an upstairs bathroom or an ice dam, drained, dried, and opened only as far as the meter says.
The wall, floor, and lower level a split supply line soaked during a January cold snap, pumped out and dried once the water is off.
Wet attic insulation, ceilings, and exterior walls dried after meltwater backed up behind an ice dam or hail opened the roof.
A tank that let go in a lower-level utility room and the carpet, drywall, and storage it soaked, extracted and dried.
Air movers and dehumidifiers set by moisture readings and run until framing, subfloor, and drywall reach their dry target.
Drywall, trim, carpet, and paint put back in a finished basement after the drying log shows the framing is dry.