Tide water coming up the drains
The city told the state that rain at high tide gets worse when waterway water flows backward through outfall pipes onto roads and swales, and it planned backflow valves for at least 19 outfalls.
Broward County
Dania Beach Water Damage Cleanup and Drying
When hard rain hits at high tide, canal water can climb back up Dania Beach drains. Call once it's inside, and every soaked room gets cleaned and dried out.
ZIP codes in the area
- 33004
Some of these ZIP codes also include neighboring communities.
Dania Beach sits between Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood, with Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport next door and the Dania Cut-off Canal and coastal wetland along its edges. South Florida Restoration Co starts water damage restoration jobs in Dania Beach for ground-floor condos, mobile homes, rentals and houses near the canals. Tell us where the water came from, and we’ll start the cleanup.
Rain at high tide and water rising from the drains
Dania Beach averages about nine feet above sea level, and its wetland lakes drain into tidal canals. In a request for state funding, the city explained that when heavy rain falls on a high tide, canal water runs backward through the outfall pipes and comes up onto roads and swales, so the street floods from below as well as from the sky. It planned backflow valves for at least 19 outfalls, from 8 inches to 72 inches across. King tides and street flooding explains the tide side of it.
Water pushed up from a storm drain or a canal is outside water, often brackish, and it doesn’t get dried in place like a clean pipe leak. Padding and carpet get hauled out with any drywall that wicked it up, and whatever stays gets scrubbed before the equipment goes in.
Ground-floor condos and wakes from passing cars
During the April 12, 2023 storm, the National Weather Service noted 15 to 20 inches across the Hollywood and Dania Beach area, and its surveyors later measured 1 to 2 feet of standing water on several Dania Beach streets, parks and open lots. The Fort Lauderdale page on the April 2023 flood has the rest of that day. The president of Meadowbrook Lakes Condominiums told Local 10 that 45 first-floor units there were ruined, residents stayed out for at least seven months, and cars speeding down flooded streets push waves of water toward the buildings.
For a ground-floor unit, a wave like that can be what gets over the threshold. Once it’s in, getting it out fast decides how much gets rebuilt later. Emergency water removal pulls the standing water first, then the wet materials come out and drying starts.
Mobile homes and storm damage
About one in eight homes in Dania Beach is a mobile home. On the night of April 12, 2023, an EF0 tornado with winds near 85 mph crossed a mobile home community east of I-95, south of the airport. NBC 6 reported about a dozen homes damaged at Ocean Waterway, some with roofs torn off, in a park where many owners are winter residents.
When a roof or a wall panel is opened up, rain gets into the ceiling panels, the insulation in the walls and the floor below. Drying a mobile home means opening those spaces and checking under the floor, where water collects out of sight.
Dania Beach ZIP code 33004
Homes in 33004 are covered, Meadowbrook Lakes and Ocean Waterway among them. Don’t see your ZIP? Call anyway and we’ll check your address.
Let us know how it got in (the street, a drain, the roof or a pipe) and whether it’s a condo, a house or a mobile home.
Services
Water, mold and sewage work in Dania Beach
- AC Leak Water DamageDrying closets, walls, ceilings and the unit below after a clogged condensate line or an overflowing drain pan.
- Mold RemediationContainment, HEPA filtration, removal of affected materials and moisture correction after a leak.
- Sewage CleanupRemoval, disinfection and drying after toilet overflows, main line backups and septic problems.
- Commercial Water DamageLarge-area drying, documentation and phased work for offices, stores, restaurants, associations and hotels.
Dania Beach's usual water problems
Ground floors lost in April 2023
The April 2023 rain ruined 45 first-floor units at Meadowbrook Lakes Condominiums and kept residents out for at least seven months, the condo president told Local 10.
Mobile home communities
About one in eight Dania Beach homes is a mobile home, by 2024 Census estimates, and on April 12, 2023 a brief EF0 tornado tore at roofs and siding in a mobile home community east of I-95, according to the National Weather Service survey.
A city of renters
More than half of Dania Beach households rent, and half the homes were built in 1977 or earlier, 2024 Census estimates show.
FAQ
Dania Beach questions we hear
A truck drove through the flooded street and pushed water under our door. Does that count as flood water?
It does. That wave is street water, carrying whatever was on the road and in the drains. Wet carpet and pad usually come out, swollen drywall gets trimmed back to clean, dry board, and the tile or slab is sanitized ahead of any drying.
Our landlord lives out of state. Can a tenant get the drying started?
Yes. Call with the address and what's wet, and pass along the owner's or manager's number if you have it. While you wait, take a few photos, then move electronics, papers and anything on the floor to a dry room.
The storm opened up the roof of our mobile home. What gets dried?
The ceiling panels and insulation under the opening, the wall panels below it and the floor where the water landed. Water can also run down inside the walls to the space under the floor, so that gets checked. The roof opening needs a cover before the drying will hold.
We only live here in the winter. Can the place be dried while we're away?
Yes, as long as someone can let the crew in and the power stays on for the equipment. Let us know who holds a key and how to reach you up north.
Where in Dania Beach
- Meadowbrook Lakes
- Ocean Waterway