Flowing Wells is the unincorporated pocket north of Grant Road and south of the Rillito, between Interstate 10 and Oracle Road, named for the artesian wells that once flowed here on their own. About 16,000 people live in it, in the plainest housing on the north side: small block ranches from the 1950s and 1960s on narrow lots, 1970s duplexes and fourplexes, and mobile home parks along Romero and Flowing Wells Roads. The roofs are flat with parapets, the coolers are original, and the copper in the slabs is as old as the houses.
Water here comes from the Flowing Wells Irrigation District, which has served the community since 1922, and it is hard. The Rillito forms the northern edge, and the October 1983 flood chewed through its banks; the streets between drain poorly toward it in a monsoon storm.
This site routes Flowing Wells homeowners to an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider reads the house with a meter before opening a wall.
A warm spot on the floor in a 1958 two-bedroom is a leak detection job before the slab is cut, and a small house means the leak is never far from a bedroom. A ceiling bowing under a cooler pan is ceiling water damage repair. A duplex where the neighbor's water heater soaked the shared wall is structural drying on both sides.
The Flowing Wells Irrigation District is one of the oldest water providers in the Tucson area and can shut the meter when a house valve has seized. Flowing Wells Unified School District covers the same footprint, and its campuses double as the community's landmarks when you are telling a crew where the house is.
Call (520) 422-6139 and describe what you found. We route the call to a local water damage provider serving Flowing Wells.
Standing water pulled off saltillo, tile, and carpet on a Tucson slab before it wicks into block walls and the bottom of the drywall.
Air movers and dehumidifiers run until block, stucco, drywall, and cabinets read dry, even after a monsoon week pushes the humidity up.
A spinning meter, a warm patch of tile, or a damp baseboard traced to a pinholed copper line under the slab before concrete is cut.
Rooms soaked when an exposed hose bib line, a cooler supply, or an attic pipe split in a hard desert freeze, pumped out and dried.
Silt and wash water pulled out of a garage or ground floor after a monsoon storm, contaminated materials removed, and the house dried.
A tank that let go in a garage, laundry closet, or outdoor alcove and the flooring and drywall it soaked before anyone noticed.
A stained or sagging ceiling under a rooftop cooler, a package AC unit, or a pooled parapet section, dried and opened only where wet.
Wet insulation, ceilings, and walls dried after a flat roof ponded, a scupper clogged, or a July storm drove water under the coating.