West Bloomfield, MI Water Damage Restoration Companies Ranked: Prime Restoration First of 555

West Bloomfield Charter Township draws a clear line between two pipes a homeowner might blame for a flooded basement. The sewer lead that runs from the house to the township's sewer main is the property owner's own responsibility under township ordinance, and at sites with an approved backflow prevention device, state cross-connection rules require that device to be tested once every five years.

The storm sewer that carries rainwater off the street is a different pipe with a different owner. West Bloomfield Charter Township says directly that storm sewers belong to the Road Commission for Oakland County, not the township, and that public drains answer to the Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner. A homeowner who calls the township about a flooded yard or street is usually routed to one of those two county offices, or to the township Environmental Division for a drainage complaint.

Two companies on the West Bloomfield list work from towns close to the township, EzDry Restoration at rank 8, based in Farmington Hills, and Charlotte's Carpet Cleaning at rank 9, based in Northville, and both still rank behind Prime Restoration, which works from Birmingham. The CR Score gap between Prime Restoration and the next company on the list, Modernistic of Troy, is 10 points.

West Bloomfield Charter Township requires a wetland permit for any work inside a 100-year floodplain, and that rule reaches past the shoreline itself: a project within 500 feet of a lake, stream, wetland or other watercourse can trigger it too. The township's own permit page names a seawall and in-water beach sanding as examples. A homeowner rebuilding a lakefront retaining wall or regrading a yard after a flood should check with the township's Building, Planning and Development Services department before work starts, separate from any ordinary building permit the repair itself needs.

Oakland County's Water Resources Commissioner sets the legal, court-ordered water level for 54 lakes under Michigan's Part 307 law, and the published list includes lakes in the West Bloomfield area: Cass, Orchard, Sylvan, Middle Straits, Lower Straits, Upper Straits and Greens. The county's own list does not say which township each lake sits in, so a homeowner should confirm their own lake's legal level with the county rather than assume it from the name alone.

On August 11, 2014, a storm dropped 4 to 6 inches of rain over 4 hours across Wayne, southern Oakland and Macomb counties, and the National Weather Service names southern Oakland County, where West Bloomfield Township sits, among the hardest-hit areas of that event. The weather service account does not name the township directly.