Professional Water Damage Restoration Services in Lehi, Mesa AZ

Lehi is older than Mesa. It was settled in March 1877, a full year before the Mesa townsite was registered, and it stayed its own place until it was annexed in 1970. It is bounded by the Salt River on the north and the Consolidated Canal on the south, which means it is the one part of the city with water on two sides and the oldest building materials still standing in the middle. Mesa Water Damage Restoration Crew treats Lehi as its own problem set, because it is.

Why Lehi water losses do not look like the rest of Mesa

• Flood irrigation on residential lots — still delivered to parts of older Mesa. Yards here are deliberately flooded, on purpose, on a schedule. When a berm gives way or a lot has settled since the last grading, that water goes where nobody planned for it to go.
• Adobe, early masonry and mixed-era additions — in the oldest homes. These materials absorb water rather than shed it, and they do not dry on the same schedule as gypsum board and framing.
• Low ground near the river and the canal — where sheet flow during a monsoon cell has somewhere to collect rather than run off.
• Long service runs on large lots — so a supply-line failure between the meter and the house can run for a long time before anyone connects the wet ground to a problem.
• Outbuildings, shops and barns — which get checked last and are frequently where a failure has been running the longest.

Lehi's supply water, and the scale it leaves behind

Lehi falls on the City Zone side of the boundary Mesa publishes in its annual water quality report, the Eastern Canal running diagonally southeast from Gilbert and McDowell Roads to Greenfield and Baseline Roads. City Zone properties get Salt and Verde river water treated at the Val Vista plant and blended with sixteen deep city wells, at an average hardness of about 12 grains per gallon. The report puts one grain per gallon at 17.1 mg/L, so that is roughly 205 mg/L.

Irrigation water and supply water are separate systems and separate problems. Irrigation is the one that floods a yard; supply hardness is the one that shortens the life of a water heater or a connector until it fails indoors. On properties that have both, and much of Lehi does, it is worth being clear about which one you are looking at before anyone starts pulling material out.

Water in a Lehi property, day or night

Call (602) 962-3556. If the water is coming from an irrigation turn rather than the house, say so on the phone, because it changes what arrives and what gets done first. Either way the drying problem is real and it gets harder the longer old materials stay wet.