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Middle East
We keep a separate, dedicated team in Pontiac. With our sister companies we look after several large buildings here, and commercial properties can keep our emergency crews on standby.
A dedicated RMO team is based in Pontiac.
Pontiac has its own RMO team. Together with our sister companies, we service a couple of large buildings in the city, so we know them well before anything goes wrong.
Commercial properties can put our emergency team on standby, so the response is arranged ahead of time and starts the moment they call.
Our office in Southfield is 13.6 miles from the middle of Pontiac: about 16.2 miles by road, or 28 minutes when traffic is light. Across Oakland 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 Telegraph Road north, which skirts downtown Pontiac to the west, or I-75 and Woodward Avenue.
A person answers 248-845-0000, day or night, and asks what happened and where.
Trucks leave with the pumps, extractors, air movers and dehumidifiers the job needs, 16.2 miles from our office.
The crew stops the water, makes the property safe and starts the drying the same visit.
75%before 1980
Median year built: 1961, across 28,325 homes and apartments. U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024, table B25034.
Registrations from Pontiac 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.
The Clinton River runs through Pontiac but is piped under downtown before it surfaces again to the east. It once powered the city's woolen and grist mills.
Source: WikipediaThe county operates Pontiac's sewers, and its Clinton River Water Resource Recovery Facility, the former Pontiac Wastewater Treatment Plant, treats about 30 million gallons of storm water and sewage a day for 13 communities.
Source: Oakland CountyPontiac's older neighborhoods are on the National Register: the Franklin Boulevard district dates from 1848, with Greek Revival, Italianate and Queen Anne homes, and the Fairgrove Avenue district's homes were built from 1895 to 1920.
Source: WikipediaThe February 2023 ice storm left a fifth of an inch of ice on Pontiac, and DTE reported close to 500,000 customers without power across the region.
Source: National Weather ServicePontiac is the Oakland County seat and the home of United Wholesale Mortgage, with Amazon's facilities on the former Silverdome site, and Woodward Avenue, Huron Street and Telegraph Road as its main roads.
Settled in 1818 where the Saginaw Trail crossed the Clinton River; a city since 1861. About 62,104 people live in Pontiac (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.
Pontiac neighborhoods
| ZIP code | Median home built | FEMA 2014 | FEMA 2021 | FEMA 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48340 | 1966 | 37 | 57 | 550 |
| 48341 | 1956 | 69 | 79 | 871 |
| 48342 | 1962 | 70 | 96 | 983 |
ZIP codes from the Census Bureau’s 2020 ZIP-to-place relationship file; housing age from ACS 2020–2024; registrations from OpenFEMA.
Pontiac is about 28 minutes from our Southfield office in light traffic (16.2 miles by road). Across Oakland 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.
Every part of Pontiac, including 48340, 48341 and 48342. If you're near the edge of Pontiac, call and we'll confirm right away.
Yes. We arrange it with the owner or manager ahead of time, so when something happens, one call starts the response. Call 248-845-0000 to set it up.
Leave your name and number and a coordinator will call you back. If water is still coming in, or there’s smoke or sewage, call now.
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