Water Damage Restoration in Grand Mound, WA

Grand Mound is the crossroads where Highway 12 leaves Interstate 5 for the coast, on the prairie in the southwest corner of Thurston County. It is named for the largest of the Mima mounds that once covered the prairie here, and for most of the twentieth century it was a gas station, a grange, and farms. The housing is spread out: 1900s farmhouses on the river bottom toward Rochester, 1970s and 1980s ranch houses on acreage along Old Highway 99 and Elderberry Street, and manufactured homes on wells and septic. The Chehalis Tribe's reservation lies just south across the county line, and since 2008 the tribe's resort on the freeway has been the largest employer in the neighborhood.

The prairie gravel drains fast, so the ranch houses on the high ground stay drier than most of the county. The river bottom is another matter. Grand Mound sits between the Chehalis and the Black River, the two flood-prone rivers of the southwest county, and the early December 2007 atmospheric river put the Chehalis across the freeway a few miles south for four days and into the low fields around the crossroads. January 2009 did it again, and the December 2015 and November 2021 storms brought both rivers back up. Between floods the winter water table under the bottomland keeps crawl spaces damp from Thanksgiving to April.

This site connects Grand Mound homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider looks at what the river or the ground did before setting the scope.

Grand Mound water damage between two rivers

Brown water in a farmhouse or a manufactured home on the bottomland is a storm and river flood cleanup, and everything porous the river touched comes out. A crawl space that stays wet under a ranch house near the Black River is a crawl space water extraction. After the tear-out, structural drying runs until the framing reads dry.

The lodge, the tribe, and the permit desk

The Great Wolf Lodge at the interchange is the landmark everyone in the county navigates by, and it is owned in partnership with the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, whose reservation along the river at Oakville has flooded in every big Chehalis year on record. Rebuild permits for a Grand Mound house go through the county's desk in Olympia; the pumping and drying need none.

Call (360) 364-8868 and say how high the water got and whether it is still rising. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Grand Mound.