Savannah, Hardin County
Water Damage Restoration in Savannah, Tennessee
The ground drains toward the Tennessee River and the head of Kentucky Lake below Pickwick Dam — which is the sort of thing a water damage restoration estimate in Savannah has to account for and a national price list does not.
Call (731) 600-1238 Water Damage Restoration, region-wide
- Service
- Water damage
- Held at
- ZIP code 38372
- County
- Hardin
The strip above counts covered codes for this service alone, and the equivalent counts for the other two will not match it.
The single most common mistake made about this town is putting it on Pickwick Lake. Pickwick Landing Dam is upstream in the same county, and the lake behind it runs fifty-three miles south and then east into Alabama. This city sits below the dam on the head of Kentucky Lake, on the east bank, and the two reaches behave nothing alike when the river comes up. The city utility department supplies water, sewer and natural gas but not electricity, so on a plumbing loss three of the four services belong to one municipal office.
The gauge here has eighty-one crests on file going back to 1897, a longer record than anywhere else on this site. Flood stage is three hundred and seventy feet, moderate flood is three hundred and seventy-five and major flood is three hundred and eighty-eight. The record is 401.2 feet on 21 March 1897; 396.11 feet followed on 20 March 1973, and 395.3 feet on 26 February 2019 is the modern record and the third highest ever measured. February 2025 reached 375.16 feet. An owner near the water is dealing with a record long enough that its highest number predates every building on the street.
Whole-town coverage, which on the sheet means ZIP code 38372. Cleanup rarely needs a permit; the reconstruction behind it is a matter for the City of Savannah Community Development department, with three state-certified building inspectors.
What decides this job at this address
- Water damage purchased at
- 38372
- Ground drains toward
- the Tennessee River and the head of Kentucky Lake below Pickwick Dam
- Shutoff and meter
- the Savannah Utility Department, which supplies water, sewer and natural gas but not electricity
- Class and category decided by
- what the water touched and where it came from, before any equipment is set
- Routes through the town
- Highway 64, State Route 69, State Route 128 and State Route 15
- Road distance
- 60 miles from Jackson
- Permit issued by
- the City of Savannah Community Development department
Elevation is the first question on any job near the water, ahead of the size of the loss, because it decides whether the problem is river water or plumbing water and those are handled differently. Isolation is tidy: the city utility department covers water, sewer and gas, and Tennessee Valley Electric Cooperative covers the power. On the rebuild the city's Community Development department is involved, which is not true a mile outside the limits. Documentation is therefore easier here than anywhere else in the county, because somebody will want to see it.
On the record here
February 2019
The Tennessee River at Savannah reached roughly 397 feet in the late-February flood. The county mayor declared a state of emergency, first responders pulled eleven people out over two days, and about fifteen families were sheltered at the Savannah Church of Christ.
What the building stock here does
Housing runs from nineteenth-century river-town fabric near the waterfront out to modern subdivision on higher ground, and under a water loss the difference between them is mostly elevation rather than construction. Basements are rare; a crawl space at the wrong height above the river is not. In the older fabric the crawl is shallow, the ground beneath it is river bottom, and it stays damp after the room above has dried. The newer building sits high enough that its water losses are internal ones — supply lines, appliances and fittings — with nothing to do with the river at all.
Cabinet kick spaces are opened and read, because a toe kick is a sealed box that holds water under a floor that meters dry everywhere else.
Water damage work by type
These are the branches of water damage work, documented regionally. The local half of the story is above, under the heading for Savannah.
Also at this address
Before you call
Ring the utility before you ring anybody else if you smell gas or if water has reached a gas appliance. That call is not ours to make for you and it comes first.
The cheapest outcome available in most of these losses is an early call and an honest assessment, even when the honest assessment is that you do not need anybody.