South Fulton, Obion County
Water Damage Restoration in South Fulton, Tennessee
South Fulton, Obion County, where Dyersburg is 35 road miles up the road. The postal codes, the permit office and the work itself are all below.
Call (731) 202-8777 The water damage restoration method
- Service
- Water damage
- Held at
- ZIP code 38257
- County
- Obion
Coverage is stored per code and rebuilt with the site, so what you see reflects the records rather than a sales territory somebody drew.
This is the Tennessee half of a twin city on the Kentucky line, and its surface water runs to Harris Fork Creek before the North Fork of the Obion takes it south. The town sells gas, sewer and water itself — three of the four services a wet building needs shut down, which is unusual at this size. Gas matters on a water call more than people expect, because a flooded appliance here is a gas appliance as often as an electric one. The fourth service is the one that catches people out, and it is dealt with further down this page.
Electricity comes from the Weakley County Municipal Electric System, which serves the whole of Weakley County plus this town and Bradford. The address is in Obion County; the power bill is not. On a water loss that is the difference between reaching an outage desk with the street on its map and reaching one without it, and the wrong call costs an hour at the point where an hour is worth something. Anyone who has moved here from elsewhere in the county has almost certainly kept the old number in their phone. Checking it against the meter once, before anything goes wrong, is worth the two minutes.
Coverage runs across all of them — ZIP code 38257 — with no gaps left in between. Cleanup rarely needs a permit; the reconstruction behind it is a matter for the unincorporated county is not on the state permit list and no South Fulton codes department is published.
What decides this job at this address
- Water damage purchased at
- 38257
- Ground drains toward
- Harris Fork Creek and the North Fork of the Obion River
- Shutoff and meter
- the City of South Fulton, which also supplies gas and sewer
- Class and category decided by
- what the water touched and where it came from, before any equipment is set
- Routes through the town
- Highway 45E and Highway 51
- Road distance
- 35 miles from Dyersburg
- Permit issued by
- the unincorporated county is not on the state permit list and no South Fulton codes department is published
So the sequence at a wet address in this town is deliberately split in two. The municipal side — water at the curb, gas at the meter, sewer if it is backing up — is one office in the city building on Milton Counce Road. The electrical side is a different utility answering from a different county, and de-energizing a panel is arranged with them and nobody else. Once both are settled, drying begins at the lowest level of the structure, because the oldest housing here sits nearest the rail alignment and the rail alignment is the low line through the town.
What the building stock here does
The population has drifted down from two thousand three hundred and fifty-four in 2010, and a town that empties slowly keeps its old housing in service rather than replacing it. Pre-war and mid-century frame on crawl spaces is what that produces, and a crawl space is where a supply leak hides for weeks under an occupied floor. Insulation between the joists holds the water against the subfloor, and the first sign upstairs is a soft spot rather than a stain. Opening the crawl and reading it from below is faster than chasing the symptom from above, and it is usually far less destructive.
Every load-bearing surprise — a rotten sill, a cut joist, an unsupported header — stops the work and gets photographed before anything else happens.
Water damage work by type
These describe the work itself, at region level, in more detail than a town page has room for. The South Fulton particulars are already above.
Also at this address
Before you call
Before you dial, find the shutoff and close it. A crew arriving at a line that is still open spends its first hour on a problem you could have ended in thirty seconds.
Groundwater and surface water sit outside most standard policies, so before anything else, find that section of your own document and read what it actually says.