Water Damage Restoration in Miramar, FL

Miramar was incorporated on May 26, 1955, and is named for the Miramar area of Havana, Cuba. The city's history page says the name means “Look at the Sea” in Spanish. At incorporation Miramar had fewer than 200 people and about 2.9 square miles, bounded by SW 64th Avenue on the east, University Drive on the west, the Dade County line on the south and Pembroke Road on the north. The city's community page now gives its size as 14 miles from east to west and 2.5 miles wide.

The city calls its historic part Historic Miramar and has been upgrading drainage there in phases, the first finished in 2007. Country Club Ranches, a community the city is connecting to its water system in seven phases, is a different case. Water damage in Miramar can begin outside, with rain that outruns the drainage, or inside, at a pipe, a water heater or a drain line. On a call we ask where in the city you are and what kind of building it is.

The city's Historic Miramar Drainage Project aims to alleviate flooding in the city's historic part. Its project page says the noted problem in most locations is drainage that does not exist, such as catch basins, pipes and exfiltration systems, and that most swales have filled in over time with silt or landscape material and no longer work. The project has six phases. Phases 1 to 4 are complete, the first in 2007 and the fourth in 2024, and phase 5 is in design. The phase boundaries on the page name Countyline Road, State Road 7, SW 64 Avenue, SW 25 Street, Pembroke Road, Miramar Parkway, the Florida Turnpike and University Drive.

Where drainage is thin, heavy rain can pond at a garage door or a ground-level entry and move into a slab-on-grade building. The city says its swales are designed so that runoff from a rain event percolates within 72 hours, and that water still standing after that means the swale is not working. Once street floodwater is inside, the IICRC S500 standard counts it as Category 3. Porous materials it soaked are removed, the surfaces that stay are cleaned, and drying follows.

Country Club Ranches is the community on the city's Country Club Ranches Water Infrastructure Project page. The project brings municipal drinking water to homes there in seven phases. Phase 1 included Old Miramar Parkway from SW 136th Avenue to SW 124th Avenue. Phases 4 to 7 are on the private roads SW 124th, 126th, 128th, 130th and 132nd Avenue, with the easement for the main generally next to the canal.

Whether a house runs on city water or a private well, a failed supply line, a water heater or a well pump or pressure tank can put water on a slab, and the work is the same: stop the water, extract it, map the wet area and dry it to a recorded goal. Canal, lake or street floodwater that reaches the inside is Category 3.