Water Damage Restoration in Rush Creek, MN

Rush Creek rises in the wetlands of western Maple Grove and runs northeast past the golf course and under Interstate 94 toward Champlin, where it meets Elm Creek and the Mississippi. The neighborhoods that take its name sit in the northwest quarter of the city, mostly two-stories and larger split-levels from the mid 1990s through the 2000s on lots that back onto the creek corridor, the course, or one of the wetlands that feed it. Rush Creek Golf Club opened in 1996 and the houses followed the fairways.

Ground that drains to a creek is ground with a high water table, and the sump pumps along Rush Creek run almost without stopping from the first March melt until the frost is out of the ground in late April. When a thunderstorm stalls on top of that, the creek rises, the wetlands fill, and the pits in the lowest basements fall behind within an hour. The June 2014 rains, the wettest month the Twin Cities airport has recorded, kept the creek high for weeks.

This site puts Rush Creek homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider. The provider meters the creek-side wall first and the rest of the level after.

Rush Creek water damage along the wetland edge

A lower level that took groundwater along the creek-side wall is a basement flooding cleanup, and every wall on the level gets read. A pump that ran until it burned out in the thaw is a sump pump failure cleanup. A hose bib line that split in the north wall during a cold snap is a frozen pipe cleanup.

Fairways, wetlands, and the drainage rules that come with them

Rush Creek Golf Club manages the ponds and the creek channel across its property, and the houses along the course share that water table. Lots here were platted with drainage and wetland easements, so a rebuild that adds a discharge line or regrades a yard near the creek draws questions from the city and the watershed. Drywall, plumbing, and wiring on the rebuild need a Maple Grove permit.

Call (763) 314-1771 and say whether the creek-side wall is the wet one. An independent local water damage provider serving Rush Creek takes it from there.