What Plants Can Reduce Ground Flooding Risk on My Property?

9/1/2020 (Permalink)

SERVPRO recommends a variety of native plants to aid in reduce possible flooding around your Middletown property.

SERVPRO Technicians Help You Restore Your Middletown Home After Flood Damage.

Middletown residents have a variety of options available to them for flood prevention to keep damage to a minimum. Simple tweaks to landscaping, garden planning, and drainage systems on your property can all go a long way toward preventing thousands of dollars in damages.

When your Middletown property requires flood damage removal, SERVPRO is ready to return your home and its contents to a preloss state. These highly-trained technicians undergo continuous training and education, even after receiving The Institute of Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) accreditation, to ensure that their knowledge of industry benchmarks remains current.

What Plants Work Best for a Rain Garden in New York State?

According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, a variety of native plants are well-suited to rain gardens in the Empire State. Consider the following for your garden planning:

• Add herbaceous plants such as great blue lobelia, red milkweed, wild bergamot, and cinnamon fern.
• Plant hardy shrubs like witch hazel, arrowwood, sweet pepperbush, and winterberry.
• Rain gardens typically cost approximately $10 to $12 per square foot of surface area covered.

How Can SERVPRO Mitigate Flood Damage Odors?

SERVPRO Odor Control Technicians (OCTs) utilize a broad array of commercial-grade, EPA-registered biocides, deodorizers, and ventilation box fans after a flood to remove microbes from the air while improving indoor air quality. Surfaces in a basement with standing water still inside may be sprayed down with a strong disinfectant before proceeding with debris removal and water extraction.

Sanitation is performed before structural drying when dealing with flooding to prevent microbes and mold from traveling through the air during the operation of air movement equipment.

SERVPRO of North Orange County and SERVPRO of South Orange County offers residential cleanup that is Faster to Any Size Disaster. Call (845) 342-3333 at any time of the day or night to have a team at your home within hours.

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