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Harvey, LA

Water Damage Drying in Harvey on Reclaimed Swamp Ground

Drying arranged as soon as you tell us, with the house kept closed and the readings kept until the walls are actually dry.

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75.2FMean July dew point in the NOAA thirty year normals for the New Orleans airport, at or above the temperature a cooled house holds its walls at
$7,500The job size where Louisiana starts licensing mold work, and below it the written report and separation rules reach nobody
10 square feetThe EPA's line for a patch most people can clean up themselves, roughly three feet by three feet
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Tell us what you can see or smell, roughly where in the house it is, and whether the house is raised or on a slab. Those three things narrow it more than the size of the patch does, because they point at how the water is arriving rather than where it ended up.

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Six quick questions, then your details. It takes under a minute, and the answers are what a local assessor would ask first.

Question 1What are you dealing with?
Question 2Is the house raised, or on a slab?

This is the question that splits the job in this metro, and the two answers have almost nothing in common. A raised house has a vented space underneath that pulls in outside air, so the problem is usually the floor system. A slab house has its plumbing cast into the concrete, so the problem is usually a leak you cannot see reaching the bottom of the wall. Answer with whatever you know.

Question 3Where do you think the water is coming from?

Worth knowing before you answer: in this climate a wall can get wet with no leak at all. The mean dew point at the airport is 75.2F in July, which is at or above the temperature air conditioning holds a wall at, so the room's own cooled surfaces can pull water straight out of the air. If none of the leak answers fit, that is genuinely useful information and not a wasted question.

Question 4Is anything still wet?

EPA guidance gives wet material roughly 24 to 48 hours before growth starts, which is why the date matters more than anything else here. One local caution: opening the windows to dry a room out does not work here in summer, because the outside air is carrying more water than the room is.

Question 5What is your position at the property?

It changes who we talk to and what has to be put in writing. Worth knowing if you rent: a landlord's own maintenance staff are exempt from the mold remediation license under Louisiana law, so work handled in house was not done by anyone the state was holding to it.

Question 6How soon do you want someone out?
Who you are, and which building

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How can we reach you?

We call to confirm the details before anyone is sent out.

Where is the property?

The contractor match is by property, not by person, so the street line matters.

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Local Context

Drying below sea level in Harvey

The goal of drying a Harvey house is to have every wet material back to normal before the second day ends, which is the EPA's line between drying and mold cleanup. The ground here does not help. Harvey's interior point sits 3.50 feet below sea level, and the soil series named for neighboring Westwego describes this landscape as semifluid clayey swamp before it was reclaimed, now drained and generally two or three feet below sea level. Water that gets in has nowhere lower to go. The crew extracts what is standing, then dries the air mechanically, because opening the house would bring in more water than it lets out.

Single-story brick ranch on sandy ground among tall slash pines under overcast sky
In The Field

What water damage drying involves in Harvey

Macro beads of condensation on a dark textured painted surface
Peeling patterned wallpaper revealing dark mottled growth on the reverse and wall face
We will tell you when the wall needs nobodyUnder about 10 square feet, the EPA says most people can clean it up themselves. If that is what you have, that is what you will be told.
Whoever assesses is not whoever removesLouisiana bars one company from doing both on the same property above $7,500. We keep them apart below it too, where the statute reaches nobody.
Check the license yourselfThe state licensing board runs a public Contractor Search by name, license number, city and parish. Look up whoever you are considering before money moves.
Deciding

Harvey drying: extraction, source and history

Tell the crew what has already been removed and what has not, and whether this address has flooded before. 379 Harvey properties have been paid for four or more floods, and a house on that list can have old damage behind the paint that a fresh drying job will not reach. If the floors are hard and the water was clean, a lot can be dried in place. If it came from outside, expect carpet and pad to go. Keep photographs of every room before anything moves.

  1. Standing water or wet materials

    Standing water needs extraction first. Wet materials without standing water go straight to dehumidification and airflow.

  2. Clean line water or outside water

    Outside water brings whatever was in the street and needs cleaning as well as drying. Say which it was.

  3. Whether this address is a repeat

    A repeat house may need the lower wall opened after drying, to check for damage from earlier events.

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Local Detail

Harvey's ground: reclaimed swamp and measured loss

Harvey's Census Bureau interior point stands 3.50 feet below sea level under the USGS national elevation dataset.

Source: United States Geological Survey, The National Map, 3D Elevation Program Point Query Service, 1/3 arc-second elevation, accessed 2026-09-22

The USDA soil series named for Westwego, established in Jefferson Parish in 1981, describes soils on drained areas between the natural levees and marsh, where the landscape was semifluid clayey swamp and swamp-marsh transition prior to reclamation, at elevations generally two or three feet below sea level, now used mainly for urban land and pastureland.

Source: United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Official Series Description, accessed 2026-09-22

The same study measured the maximum urban rates of elevation loss, between 30 and 47 millimeters a year, in the area around Louis Armstrong International Airport, and rates from 2 to more than 20 millimeters a year in areas including Kenner and Harvey.

Source: Fiaschi, Allison and Jones, Vertical land motion in Greater New Orleans, Science Advances, via PubMed Central, accessed 2026-09-22

The EPA states that wet or damp building materials and furnishings should be cleaned and dried within 24 to 48 hours to prevent mold growth, and that if wet or damp materials or areas are dried 24 to 48 hours after a leak or spill happens, in most cases mold will not grow.

Source: United States Environmental Protection Agency, accessed 2026-09-22

Next Step

Is anything still standing on the floor?

Tell us how deep and in which rooms. Extraction comes before drying, and it decides what equipment goes in.

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Harvey survey and removal after the drying

Questions

Harvey drying questions about low ground

Is the ground under Harvey still dropping?

The regional study measured rates from 2 to more than 20 millimeters a year in areas including Kenner and Harvey, while most of the urban area was relatively stable. That is not a statement about your lot, and a drying crew cannot measure it. What it does mean is that low ground stays low, so drying after water gets in is worth starting promptly.

Can I use the air conditioning while the house dries?

Usually yes, if the electrics are safe and the unit was not flooded, and it helps: the air outside in summer carries a mean dew point of 75.2F, so the air conditioning and dehumidifiers are what actually pull water out. Keep the windows shut while the equipment runs.

Next Step

Send the Harvey water height and the rooms it reached

Photos of every wall before anything moves. A person reads them and arranges drying.

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