San Jacinto is one of the oldest towns in Riverside County, incorporated in 1888 and rebuilt after the Christmas Day 1899 earthquake knocked down most of its brick downtown. The houses along Main Street and San Jacinto Avenue are 1900s to 1940s wood-frame homes, many raised on short foundations. The rest of the city is 1970s and 1980s single-story slab tracts and 2000s two-story stucco tracts that pushed north toward the river and the Soboba reservation. The population is about 55,000.
The San Jacinto River runs along the north and west edges of town, and it is the reason the city floods. In February 1980 it broke across the valley floor and put water in homes and fields for weeks. The river and the Bautista Creek channel were improved afterward, but the February 2024 atmospheric river still brought water across the low streets near the river. The town also sits on the San Jacinto Fault, and slabs here crack and shift.
This site routes San Jacinto homeowners to an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider sets the scope from readings inside the house.
River and street water across a garage slab near the north side is storm flood cleanup. A 1980s tract house with a warm floor is a leak detection call. A leak under a raised 1920s house downtown drips into the crawl space instead of soaking a slab, and the water extraction crew checks the subfloor from below.
Rebuild permits go through the City of San Jacinto, and water service for most of the city comes from Eastern Municipal Water District or Lake Hemet Municipal Water District depending on the street. Tell the crew which one bills you so they know who can shut the meter.
Call (951) 631-2989 and tell us what you found. We route the call to a local water damage provider serving San Jacinto.
Standing water pulled off slab-floor tile, laminate, and carpet in a Riverside house, then the first meter readings to see how far it ran.
Air movers and dehumidifiers run until slab-side drywall, cabinets, and flooring hit their dry target, even on a cool, damp January week.
A warm tile, a spinning meter, or a soft wall traced to a pitted copper line under the slab or inside a wall before anyone cuts concrete.
Carpet, laminate, and the bottom of the walls soaked by a line that failed under the slab, dried out and documented once the plumber has it stopped.
Muddy street runoff and Santa Ana River bottom water pulled out of a garage or ground floor after an atmospheric river, with contaminated materials removed.
A tank that let go in a garage, side-yard closet, or hall cabinet and the drywall and flooring it soaked on the way across the slab.
A stained, sagging, or dripping ceiling under a second-floor bath, a roof-mounted swamp cooler, or an attic air handler, dried and opened only where wet.
Wet attic insulation, ceilings, and walls dried out after Santa Ana winds lifted tile or a winter storm found the valley flashing.