Restoration help in Southeast Portland
Southeast is the city's most split personality for water. Close in, Sellwood and Eastmoreland hold some of Portland's oldest and best-kept housing on real basements. Farther out, Lents and Powellhurst sit along Johnson Creek, the metro's most flood-famous waterway, where properties on the corridor have flooded on a cycle for decades.
The buildings
Sellwood, Eastmoreland, and Woodstock are pre-war and post-war single-family, mostly basements. The outer southeast flats run midcentury ranches on crawlspaces and slabs. Lents and Powellhurst mix the same ranches with apartments and manufactured housing near the creek.
The water
Two signatures. In the older close-in neighborhoods, the calls are basement water: sewer backup, failed laterals, seasonal groundwater. Along Johnson Creek the signature is overland flooding when the creek comes up, and crawlspace water that arrives with every long storm. Properties near the creek know the drill.
The callback
Distance from the creek matters for scope. Tell the crew roughly where the house sits relative to Johnson Creek or Foster, and whether the water came up through the floor or came in over the ground.
Coverage
Sellwood, Eastmoreland, Woodstock, Mt. Scott-Arleta, Foster-Powell, Lents, Powellhurst-Gilbert, Pleasant Valley, and the corridor out to the city line.