Forest Acres sits in the middle of the Gills Creek watershed, a network of streams, ponds and dammed lakes running roughly 70 miles through Columbia, Forest Acres and Arcadia Lakes. Decades of development turned the creek into a chain of shallow lakes stair-stepping up from Lake Katherine. Pleasant to live beside, and a genuine liability in extreme rain.
October 2015 proved the point. Gills Creek took the worst of the flooding in the Midlands. The Cary’s Lake dam and the bridge across it washed away, homes on Woodlake Drive were submerged, and residents in several neighborhoods east of Columbia were still in litigation with their homeowners associations over failed dams years later.
What that means for a Forest Acres property is that the risk is not only rain falling on your own lot. It is what happens upstream, and how the impoundments above you behave. Water arriving from a dam breach comes fast and carries debris and contamination with it, which puts a job into contaminated water handling rather than straightforward drying.
Restoration professionals serving Forest Acres handle emergency extraction, structural drying, contaminated water cleanup, mold remediation, and storm and flood damage. Twenty four hour response: (803) 555-0100