Port Townsend Commercial Site Drainage & Storm Line Repair
Catch basins, parking lot drains, storm lines, French drains and footing drains on commercial and multi-family sites, diagnosed and rebuilt so water goes where it's supposed to.
Port Townsend's larger properties, marinas and waterfront industry at Point Hudson and the boat haven and senior living and medical facilities among them, share a problem: private water systems installed decades ago in outwash sand under the historic districts with nobody left who knows where they run. Commercial site drainage here starts with that reality and ends with diagnosis of the failed component.
The job on Port Townsend properties
The order matters: trace and test, then probe and pit, then excavate. On senior living and medical facilities near Fort Worden the second step is the long one, because clay seams in the uplands and the length of the private system set the pace. The result is diagnosis of the failed component and rebuilt drains, basins and lines on.
When a building lower level or crawlspace wet after at marinas and waterfront industry at Point Hudson and the boat haven, the job is the same shape every time: trace and test, probe and pit, excavate. What changes in Port Townsend is the ground, clay seams in the uplands, and the access across Fort Worden. What doesn't change is that nothing gets dug until it's located.
What's under Port Townsend's larger sites
What we know about Port Townsend's larger properties: port Townsend's commercial stock runs from 1880s downtown buildings with century-old lines to the marina and boatyard facilities on fill at the water, all on the City's gravity system from the Quilcene. On multi-family along the Sheridan corridor near Water Street we plan for sandy bluffs above the Strait and for a system with no drawing.
Footing drain installation and properly outleted downspout lines are the common work.
On historic downtown commercial buildings near Point Hudson the trigger for commercial site drainage is usually a storm line collapsed by vehicle loads; on senior living and medical facilities it's a parking lot or drive aisle that ponds. Either way the ground is sandy bluffs above the Strait, the system is older than the staff, and we probe and pit before any surface near Water Street is cut.
One crew, start to finish
Managers of Fort Worden's facilities in Port Townsend use us for commercial site drainage because one crew does the locate, the excavation in till toward Discovery Bay, the repair and the restoration, and because we answer at night. A dedicated trip across the Hood Canal Bridge, so an emergency near Sheridan Street doesn't wait for a crew from across the Sound.
Ready when you are
If a catch basin that fills and never drains at your property near the boat haven, call (206) 354-9906. We'll quantify it, find it and fix it.
Commercial work in the field
Commercial Site Drainage & Storm Line Repair in Port Townsend: questions
Which Port Townsend properties do you work with for commercial site drainage?
Can commercial site drainage happen after hours in Port Townsend?
Will the City of Port Townsend help with a building lower level or crawlspace wet after?
Do you restore asphalt and landscape after commercial site drainage?
What documentation does the board or owner get after commercial site drainage?
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Commercial Site Drainage & Storm Line Repair in Port Townsend?
We answer 24 hours a day. We locate before we dig, and we handle the whole job with our own crew and equipment.