Lakeville was platted in 1855 next to what was then Prairie Lake and is now Lake Marion, incorporated as a village in 1878, and became a city in 1967 with fewer than a thousand people. It passed 69,000 by 2020, most of that since 1990, so the housing is mainly 1990s and 2000s two-stories and walkouts on curving streets, with an older core downtown and along the lake. The city sits at about 1,086 feet, the highest ground on this list, on the divide where water runs north to the Minnesota River or south to the Vermillion.
New subdivisions here were graded to drain to constructed ponds, and a walkout lot that backs onto one of those ponds has a lower level a few feet above the pond's high-water line.
This site connects Lakeville homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider meters the lower level and writes the scope from the numbers.
A finished lower level that took water when the pond behind the lot came up in a stalled storm is a basement flooding cleanup. A pump that quit when the power went out is a sump pump failure cleanup. A washer on the lower level that emptied across the family room carpet is a washing machine overflow cleanup.
The old town along the lake and the Dan Patch rail line is the story Downtown Lakeville tells, and it is the part of town with 1900s basements. The south half of the city drains to the Vermillion River, managed by the Vermillion River Watershed Joint Powers Organization, which Dakota and Scott counties formed to handle the river's 372 square miles. Rebuild permits go through the City of Lakeville.
Call (651) 433-7589 and tell us what you found on the lower level. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Lakeville.
Water pumped out of a finished lower level or walkout basement, then carpet pad, drywall, and framing metered to see what stayed wet.
Cleanup after the pump lost power in a storm or could not keep up with a spring thaw, and drying of the floor and walls the pit overflow reached.
Standing water pulled off carpet, tile, and concrete on any level of the house, followed by the first moisture readings.
Air movers and dehumidifiers run by daily readings until subfloor, studs, and drywall reach their dry target in a cold or humid house.
Cleanup after a supply line froze in a garage wall, rim joist, or unheated corner and split, then drying of what the thaw soaked.
Wet attic insulation, ceilings, and exterior walls dried after an ice dam, a hail-torn roof, or a summer storm let water inside.
A failed hose or drain on the lower level, the laundry room floor, and the family room carpet next to it pumped out and dried.
A sized dehumidifier set up for a below-grade level that stays damp through a Minnesota summer or after a drying job wraps up.