Water Damage Restoration in Sakonnet Point, RI

Sakonnet Point is the southwestern tip of Little Compton where the Sakonnet River meets the ocean, a fishing harbor with a breakwater, a lighthouse offshore from 1884, and a cluster of summer houses on the low ground and the bluffs around it. The houses are shingle cottages from the early 1900s, rebuilt or replaced after the storms, with newer houses on the higher lots and a few year-round residents among the summer people.

The 1938 hurricane came ashore here with almost nothing in its way. It destroyed the cottages on the point, the clubs, and the harbor buildings, and the Little Compton Historical Society's photographs of the aftermath show bare foundations where a summer colony had been. Carol in 1954 flooded the point again. Today the exposure is the same, and most houses stand empty from October to May with the plumbing inside them.

This site puts Sakonnet Point homeowners and caretakers through by phone to an independent local water damage provider.

Sakonnet Point water damage where the river meets the ocean

Sea water in a cottage on the low ground is a storm surge and coastal flood cleanup. A pipe that froze in a house shut for the winter is a frozen pipe cleanup, and the crew asks how many weeks it ran. Wind-driven rain under old shingles is roof leak and ice dam water damage.

The land trust that keeps the point open

The Sakonnet Preservation Association, Rhode Island's first private land trust, has protected farmland and shore in Little Compton since 1972, and the open fields behind the point are part of why the neighborhood still drains the way it did a century ago. Rebuild permits go through the town office on the Commons, and coastal setback rules from the state apply on the point.

Call (401) 560-5802 and say whether the water is salt and when the house was last checked. An independent local water damage provider serving Sakonnet Point takes the call.