Cedar Island Lake sits in the southeast corner of Maple Grove near the Plymouth and Brooklyn Park lines, with Cedar Island Elementary and the neighborhood of the same name along its shores. The houses here are mostly 1980s and early 1990s two-stories and split-levels on medium lots, built as the city grew eastward from the old Osseo-area farms. The lake drains south and east through Bass Creek into Shingle Creek, so this corner of the city shares its water with Plymouth and Brooklyn Park rather than with the Elm Creek side.
The ground here is a mix of till and sand, and the basements around the lake behave differently from street to street. One block's pits run all spring and the next block's never do. What every house shares is the age of the plumbing: thirty-year-old supply stops, wax rings, and water heaters, which is why the ceiling stains and the utility room floods here tend to come from inside the house rather than from the lake.
This site connects Cedar Island Lake homeowners by phone with an independent local water damage provider. The provider finds the source before anything is opened.
A kitchen ceiling stained under the upstairs bathroom is a ceiling water damage repair that begins with running the fixtures above. A utility room that flooded when a thirty-year-old water heater let go gets dried with structural drying once the water is out. A floor drain that backed up in a storm is a sewer backup cleanup.
The Shingle Creek Watershed Management Commission sets the drainage and stormwater rules for this corner of Maple Grove along with Plymouth, Brooklyn Park, and the cities downstream, and a sump discharge or a regraded yard near the lake falls under its standards. Rebuild permits for drywall, plumbing, and wiring come from the City of Maple Grove.
Call (763) 314-1771 and say where the stain or the puddle is. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Cedar Island Lake.
Water pumped out of a finished lower level under a Maple Grove two-story, then pad, drywall, and the bottom plate metered to see what stayed wet.
Cleanup after the pump lost power in a thunderstorm or drowned in the March thaw, plus drying of the floor and walls the pit overflow reached.
Cleanup after a supply line froze above the garage, in a rim joist, or behind a kitchen sink and let go when the cold broke.
Attic insulation, upstairs ceilings, and exterior walls dried after an ice dam at the eave pushed meltwater under the shingles.
Air movers and dehumidifiers set by daily readings until joists, studs, subfloor, and drywall come back to dry in a closed-up Minnesota house.
The source traced for a damp spot, a high water bill, or a stain with no obvious leak, before any wall or floor in the house gets opened.
A sagging or stained ceiling below an upstairs bath or laundry dried, opened where the readings say so, and made ready for the rebuild.
Contaminated water from a floor drain or a backed-up main line removed from a basement, with the materials it touched taken out and the slab cleaned.