Water Damage Restoration in Millis, MA

Millis split off from Medway in 1885 and named itself for Lansing Millis, the railroad man who brought the Clicquot Club ginger ale plant to town. The bottling works ran on Main Street from the 1880s until 1980, and the village around it kept its 1800s and early 1900s houses, with stone foundations and shallow cellars. The Charles River wraps around the town on three sides, and Bogastow Brook cuts through the middle. Most of the housing beyond the village is 1960s and 1970s ranches and colonials, with a run of 1980s and 1990s subdivisions on the higher ground toward Norfolk.

The meadows between Millis and Medfield flood almost every spring. Route 109 and Route 115 both cross the river here, and in March 2010 the water spread across the flood plain and into the low neighborhoods along it. Basements on the river side of town sit in the water table every spring.

We connect Millis homeowners by phone with an independent local water damage provider. The provider looks at the house and sets the scope.

Millis water damage, from the meadow to the slab

Groundwater that came through the floor-wall joint after a thaw is a basement flooding cleanup job. A pit that could not keep up with the March water table is sump pump failure cleanup. A leak in a 1900s village house that has been replumbed three times over a century is a job for leak detection before anyone opens a wall.

Is your Millis street in the mapped flood plain?

The Town of Millis runs water and sewer through its Department of Public Works, and rebuild permits after a water loss go through the Building Department at Town Hall on Main Street, a few doors from where the Clicquot plant stood. Ask the same office whether your street is in the mapped Charles River flood plain before you finish a basement again.

Call (508) 570-0957 now and tell us what you see. We connect you with a local water damage provider serving Millis.