Water Damage Restoration in Oakdale, GA

Oakdale is the unincorporated stretch of south Cobb between Smyrna and Mableton, along Oakdale Road and South Cobb Drive down to the Chattahoochee, at about 820 feet, which is lower than Smyrna's ridge by more than 200 feet. Its post office opened in 1899 and closed in 1912, and for most of the last century it was a scattering of farmhouses and mill villages along the river and the old streetcar line. The housing now is 1950s and 1960s ranches on crawl spaces along Oakdale Road, 1970s subdivisions on the hills, and a wave of 2000s townhomes and subdivisions built on the flat land toward the river as the last farms sold.

Low and close to the river is the pattern. Nickajack Creek reaches the Chattahoochee here, and the flat lots between the two took water in September 2009 when both came up. The 1950s ranches on the hills have the ordinary Smyrna problem instead: a split line under the floor and a crawl space full of clay that holds it.

This site puts Oakdale homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider. The provider meters the crawl space and the lower level and writes the scope from the numbers.

Oakdale water damage between the creek and the river

Creek or river water in a lower level is a creek flood cleanup, and the mud comes out first. Standing water under a ranch after a pipe failure is a crawl space water extraction. A supply line that split in a townhome attic during the December 2022 freeze is burst pipe water damage.

Civil War earthworks, a creekside trail, and a county permit desk

The River Line Historic Area preserves what is left of Johnston's River Line, the six miles of Confederate earthworks built along this bank of the Chattahoochee in July 1864, with Discovery Park opening on 80 acres of it in 2021. A few miles up Nickajack Creek, Heritage Park runs a 1.7-mile trail along the creek past the ruins of the old mills, on boardwalks over wetlands that show exactly how much of this bottomland is water. Oakdale is unincorporated, so rebuild permits go through Cobb County Community Development.

Call (770) 830-3578 and say how high the water got and where it came from. An independent local water damage provider serving Oakdale picks it up from there.