Water Damage Restoration in Jamestown, RI

Jamestown is the town on Conanicut Island in the middle of Narragansett Bay, reached from Newport over the Pell Bridge and from the west over the Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge, which replaced the 1940 span in 1992. About 5,500 people live here year round. The village around East Ferry holds 1800s houses and shingle-style summer cottages from the 1880s and 1890s, and the rest of the island is 1950s through 1980s houses on the Shores, farms in the middle, and Beavertail at the southern tip.

The 1938 hurricane hit this island as hard as anywhere. The surge grounded the ferry Governor Carr in the harbor, swept Mackerel Cove, and left the low necks under water. Carol in 1954 and Bob in 1991, which passed directly over the bay, did the same on a smaller scale. Between storms, the island's houses rely on wells and septic outside the village, and the wind off the bay reaches every side of every house.

This site puts Jamestown homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider who crosses the bridge every week.

Jamestown water damage on an island in the middle of the bay

Bay water in a house near the harbor or on a low neck is a storm surge and coastal flood cleanup. A pipe that froze in a summer cottage shut for the winter is a frozen pipe cleanup. Wind-driven rain under century-old shingles is roof leak and ice dam water damage.

The town hall by the ferry and the light at the point

Rebuild permits go through the Town of Jamestown, which runs its own building office in the village. At the southern tip, Beavertail State Park wraps the lighthouse on the most exposed rocks on the island, where the 1938 surge tore away the outbuildings and uncovered the foundation of the original 1749 tower, which is still there in the rock.

Call (401) 560-5802 and say which part of the island the house is on and whether the water is salt. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Jamestown.