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Water damage restoration and cleanup in Center Line, Michigan

Center Line is a small, dense city inside Warren, and most of its homes are mid-century: about half were built before 1960. We cover it with the same residential and commercial teams that serve Warren.

Call 248-845-0000Request help
From our office
11.1 miles, about 23 min
ZIP code
48015
Area code
586

Our work in Center Line

Residential and commercial RMO teams cover Center Line, Warren and Sterling Heights.

  • Residential
  • Commercial
  • Water damage

The same teams that cover Warren

We have a strong residential response team for Center Line and the Warren neighborhoods around it, and commercial teams for the shops, offices and dealerships along Van Dyke and Ten Mile. Commercial buildings can keep us on standby, so the call goes straight to a crew.

Most calls here are basements in older homes: water through a floor drain or a foundation crack after a storm, or a pipe that gave out. We pump it out, clean and dry it with daily readings, and document it for your insurer.

How fast we reach Center Line

Our office in Southfield is 9.7 miles from the middle of Center Line: about 11.1 miles by road, or 23 minutes when traffic is light. Across Macomb County a crew is on site in about 60 minutes, day or night, and when you call we give you a real arrival time.

From Southfield, crews take I-696 east to the Van Dyke exit, at Center Line's northern edge.

  1. You call

    A person answers 248-845-0000, day or night, and asks what happened and where.

  2. A crew heads to Center Line

    Trucks leave with the pumps, extractors, air movers and dehumidifiers the job needs, 11.1 miles from our office.

  3. On site in about 60 minutes

    The crew stops the water, makes the property safe and starts the drying the same visit.

Why Center Line homes and buildings flood

When homes in Center Line were built

87%before 1980

  1. 1939 or earlier: 10% of homes
  2. 1940s: 16% of homes
  3. 1950s: 25% of homes
  4. 1960s: 19% of homes
  5. 1970s: 17% of homes
  6. 1980s: 8% of homes
  7. 1990s: 3% of homes
  8. 2000s: 3% of homes
  9. 2010s: less than 1% of homes
  10. 2020 or later: less than 1% of homes

Median year built: 1960, across 3,754 homes and apartments. U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024, table B25034.

Households that asked FEMA for help
  • August 2014 flood (DR-4195)375
  • June 2021 flood (DR-4607)34
  • August 2023 storms (DR-4757)193

Registrations from Center Line mailing addresses. A registration is a household asking for help, not proof of damage, and mailing addresses don’t follow city limits exactly. FEMA, OpenFEMA Housing Assistance data, pulled 2026-10-12.

  • A pump station under repair

    In heavy rain the city's sanitary pump station has overflowed into the Lorraine Drain; Center Line is now carrying out a $10 million upgrade of the station and its retention system.

    Source: C&G Newspapers

  • Keep sump water out of the sewer

    City code bars sump pump water, roof drainage and ground water from the sanitary sewer, and downspouts must discharge at least five feet from the house.

    Source: City of Center Line

  • August 2, 2024

    The National Weather Service's flash flood warning on August 2, 2024 named Center Line among the communities expected to flood after about an inch of rain fell in 30 minutes.

    Source: FOX 2 Detroit

  • Wartime homes

    Kramer Homes, built in 1941 and 1942 for workers at the nearby tank plant and designed with Eliel and Eero Saarinen, is now one of Michigan's largest housing co-ops.

    Source: Kramer Homes Co-operative

Services in Center Line

Van Dyke Avenue is Center Line's main street, with shops, offices and dealerships along it and Ten Mile Road; the whole city sits inside Warren.

Local resources for Center Line property owners

A village in 1925 and a city in 1936. About 8,463 people live in Center Line (Census, 2020–2024 estimate). If a public sewer backed up into your building, Michigan law asks you to give written notice to the agency that runs the sewer (the city, township or county) within 45 days of finding the damage.

Center Line neighborhoods

  • Downtown (Van Dyke and Ten Mile)
  • Kramer Homes
Center Line ZIP codes, with housing age and FEMA history (1)
Center Line ZIP codes, with the median year homes were built and FEMA aid registrations after each flood
ZIP codeMedian home builtFEMA 2014FEMA 2021FEMA 2023
48015196037634193

ZIP codes from the Census Bureau’s 2020 ZIP-to-place relationship file; housing age from ACS 2020–2024; registrations from OpenFEMA.

Center Line questions

How fast can you get to Center Line?

Center Line is about 23 minutes from our Southfield office in light traffic (11.1 miles by road). Across Macomb County a crew is on site in about 60 minutes, day or night. Call 248-845-0000 and we'll give you a real arrival time.

Which Center Line ZIP codes do you cover?

Every part of Center Line, including 48015. If you're near the edge of Center Line, call and we'll confirm right away.

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