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Water damage restoration and cleanup in St. Clair Shores, Michigan

St. Clair Shores sits on Lake St. Clair, and about half of its homes were built in the 1950s, on a sewer that backs up in hard rain: 4 inches fell in two hours on July 28, 2025. We keep a residential response team and commercial teams for the city, and businesses can keep a crew on standby.

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From our office
18.8 miles, about 32 min
ZIP codes
48080 · 48081 · 48082
Area code
586

Our work in St. Clair Shores

Residential and commercial RMO teams cover St. Clair Shores, Roseville, Eastpointe and Warren.

  • Residential
  • Commercial
  • Sewage

Basements, lake homes and the businesses on the Nautical Mile

We have a strong residential response team for St. Clair Shores and its neighbors, and commercial teams for the restaurants, marinas, shops and offices along Jefferson, Harper and Nine Mile. Commercial buildings can keep us on standby, so the call goes straight to a crew.

Most of the work here is basements: sewage or storm water up through the floor drain, a sump pump that couldn't keep up, or lake water pushing in during high water. We pump it out, clean and disinfect, dry it with daily readings and document it for the city claim and your insurer.

How fast we reach St. Clair Shores

Our office in Southfield is 16.7 miles from the middle of St. Clair Shores: about 18.8 miles by road, or 32 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 its end at I-94 in St. Clair Shores; Jefferson Avenue runs along the lakeshore.

  1. You call

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

  2. A crew heads to St. Clair Shores

    Trucks leave with the pumps, extractors, air movers and dehumidifiers the job needs, 18.8 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 St. Clair Shores homes and buildings flood

When homes in St. Clair Shores were built

91%before 1980

  1. 1939 or earlier: 6% of homes
  2. 1940s: 7% of homes
  3. 1950s: 50% of homes
  4. 1960s: 17% of homes
  5. 1970s: 11% of homes
  6. 1980s: 4% of homes
  7. 1990s: 2% of homes
  8. 2000s: 2% of homes
  9. 2010s: 1% of homes
  10. 2020 or later: less than 1% of homes

Median year built: 1957, across 28,321 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)759
  • June 2021 flood (DR-4607)159
  • August 2023 storms (DR-4757)487

Registrations from St. Clair Shores 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.

  • Two basins in town

    Two county retention basins sit in St. Clair Shores: Chapaton, which takes combined storm water and sewage from all of Eastpointe and most of St. Clair Shores, and Martin. In 2025 the county finished enlarging Chapaton from 3 million to 17 million gallons.

    Source: Macomb County

  • June 2021

    When a Detroit pump station lost power on June 25 and 26, 2021, combined sewage backed up in the system serving St. Clair Shores and Eastpointe, and Macomb County said dozens of homes in St. Clair Shores had basement flooding.

    Source: Macomb County

  • Four inches in two hours

    On July 28, 2025, the National Weather Service measured 4.00 inches of rain in two hours in St. Clair Shores.

    Source: National Weather Service Detroit

  • Record lake levels

    As Lake St. Clair hit record highs in 2019, the city declared an emergency in May, told lakefront residents to put up barriers, and handed out sand and sandbags.

    Source: WDIV ClickOnDetroit

Services in St. Clair Shores

The Nautical Mile on Jefferson Avenue, between 9 and 10 Mile, has marinas, restaurants and boat dealers, and the city's main shopping area is around Mack Avenue and Nine Mile.

Local resources for St. Clair Shores property owners

A village in 1925 and a city in 1951. About 58,140 people live in St. Clair Shores (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.

St. Clair Shores neighborhoods

  • Nautical Mile
  • Nine-Mack Downtown
  • Ten Mile Parkway
St. Clair Shores ZIP codes, with housing age and FEMA history (3)
St. Clair Shores ZIP codes, with the median year homes were built and FEMA aid registrations after each flood
ZIP codeMedian home builtFEMA 2014FEMA 2021FEMA 2023
480801958283110265
48081195735228105
48082195812621116

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

St. Clair Shores questions

How fast can you get to St. Clair Shores?

St. Clair Shores is about 32 minutes from our Southfield office in light traffic (18.8 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 St. Clair Shores ZIP codes do you cover?

Every part of St. Clair Shores, including 48080, 48081 and 48082. If you're near the edge of St. Clair Shores, call and we'll confirm right away.

Who fixes the sewer line to my house?

In St. Clair Shores the city maintains the main sewer, and the line from your house to the main is yours; digging it up needs a city permit and inspections. We handle the cleanup inside, and can document the damage for your claim.

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