Parsons, Decatur County
Water Damage Restoration in Parsons, Tennessee
Parsons sits in Decatur County, Parsons City Hall for water and sewer runs the water and holds the shutoff, and that is where a water damage restoration job starts rather than at the front door.
Call (731) 600-1238 What water damage restoration involves
- Service
- Water damage
- Held at
- ZIP code 38363
- County
- Decatur
Extraction and drying are described at region level on the sub-pages; what stays here is what changes with the address.
The Beech River comes over from Henderson County and crosses this county between here and Decaturville, which puts a small, quick stream between the two largest settlements in Decatur County. Water and sewer are run out of Parsons City Hall rather than by a district, so what feeds a house and what drains it are both the responsibility of one small municipal office. Natural gas is separate again, from Parsons Natural Gas. East of the plateau the ground is sandier than anything at the western end of this region, and surface water leaves faster here than an owner used to flatter country expects.
The gauge that governs river questions in this county is at Perryville, and it reads reservoir elevation rather than natural stage, so the numbers look wrong until somebody explains that. Flood stage there is three hundred and sixty-five feet above sea level and major flood is three hundred and seventy-five. The record is 380.9 feet, set on 1 March 1897, and the modern record is 378.2 feet on 27 February 2019. That February is the flood people here measure things against, and it is the one to ask about on any riverside or lake-access property.
Everything the postal service calls this place is covered: ZIP code 38363. Once the drying stops and rebuilding starts, the State Fire Marshal's Office, which issues the residential permit here is the office that issues the permit.
What decides this job at this address
- Water damage purchased at
- 38363
- Ground drains toward
- the Beech River and Kentucky Lake to the east
- Shutoff and meter
- Parsons City Hall for water and sewer, with Parsons Natural Gas supplying gas from the Tennessee Gas Pipeline
- Class and category decided by
- what the water touched and where it came from, before any equipment is set
- Routes through the town
- Highway 412 and Highway 641
- Road distance
- 50 miles from Jackson
- Permit issued by
- the State Fire Marshal's Office
Three organizations have to be identified before anything is shut off: city hall for water and sewer, Parsons Natural Gas for the fuel, and Lexington Electric System for the power. That is more phone numbers than a town this size suggests, and two of the three answer from outside the county. Once isolation is settled the work is conventional — extraction, then the crawl space, then the wall bases. Because no inspector will ever see any of it, the moisture record the crew keeps is the only document the job produces, and it is built from dated readings at marked locations rather than from memory.
What the building stock here does
Housing here is mid-century and later, mostly one story over a crawl space or on slab, and that stock fails in two clearly different ways. Over a crawl space the water leaves the room quickly and comes back for weeks as humidity through the subfloor, so the room looks finished long before it is. On slab it spreads sideways beneath the finish floor and reaches wall bases the leak never touched. Which of the two a house is decides how long the drying takes, and it is usually obvious from the front steps.
Attic decking is read from inside rather than guessed at from the ground, and the reading is repeated after a dry day before anything is condemned.
Water damage work by type
What follows applies at any water damage address in West Tennessee. What applies only in Parsons is above.
Also at this address
- Fire damage in ParsonsGas in this town comes from Parsons Natural Gas and is fed from the Tennessee Gas Pipeline, so a small municipal-scale distribution system hangs off an interstate transmission line.
- Everything covered in ParsonsThe town page: what is held here, the utilities, the permit office and what is on the record.
Before you call
Bring the deductible figure into the conversation. There is little point scoping a four thousand dollar loss against a five thousand dollar deductible, and finding that out early suits everybody.
If the source has stopped and the floor is dry to the touch after a day with a fan on it, you are finished and there is nothing here for us to sell you.