Essex County
Mold Removal in Bloomfield, the Town That Collects the Hill
Tell us what got wet and roughly when, and we will say whether the drywall can be dried where it stands or has to come out. Bloomfield has more paid flood insurance claims than any other town in this area, 632 of them, and a single night in September 2021 accounts for about 7.49 million dollars of the roughly 10.55 million ever paid here.
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Tell us what you can see or smell, roughly where in the house it is, and which side of the building that wall is on. Direction usually tells us more than the size of the patch does, because it points at where the water arrived rather than where it ended up.
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One night in 2021 cost Bloomfield more than every other flood combined
Bloomfield has the largest flood insurance claim count in this service area: 632 paid claims totaling about $10.55 million. The 2025 county plan credits it with 410 active policies, 640 claims, about $10.34 million in payments, 33 repetitive loss properties and 4 severe repetitive loss properties.
Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, OpenFEMA FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims v2, accessed 2026-09-21
Of Bloomfield's 632 paid flood insurance claims, 178 came from the remnants of Hurricane Ida in 2021, and those 178 claims account for about $7.49 million of the town's roughly $10.55 million lifetime total. Hurricane Irene in 2011 produced 139 claims and Hurricane Floyd in 1999 produced 135, but together those paid out about $2.2 million.
Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, OpenFEMA FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims v2, accessed 2026-09-21
USGS elevation values sampled on a 123 point grid inside Bloomfield township run from about 81 feet above sea level to about 217 feet. Bloomfield is the valley floor immediately below the Montclair and Glen Ridge slope.
Source: United States Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program point query service, accessed 2026-09-21
Bloomfield's 2025 hazard mitigation annex identifies erosion along the Third River as an ongoing issue that puts private properties at risk, states that the streambank along Toney's Brook needs stabilization, and identifies the stormwater system along Ampere Parkway as needing improvements and upgrades.
Source: Essex County Office of Emergency Management, 2025 Hazard Mitigation Plan Update, Volume II, municipal annexes, accessed 2026-09-21
Bloomfield township has 21,789 housing units with a median year built of 1950. Some 8,213 of them, 37.7 percent, predate 1940 and 64.0 percent predate 1960. Just under half the occupied homes, 49.3 percent, are rented.
Source: United States Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 five year estimates, accessed 2026-09-21
Bloomfield reports in the 2025 county plan that floodplain management sits with its Engineering function, that it does have staff holding the CFM floodplain manager credential, and that it maintains both a list of properties damaged by flooding and a list of owners interested in flood mitigation.
Source: Essex County Office of Emergency Management, 2025 Hazard Mitigation Plan Update, Volume II, municipal annexes, accessed 2026-09-21
The EPA remediation guidance presents Table 1 as strategies to respond to water damage within 24 to 48 hours, describing these as guidelines designed to avoid the need for remediation of mold growth by taking quick action before growth starts, and its remediation flow chart instructs that non moldy items be dried within 48 hours.
Source: United States Environmental Protection Agency, Mold Remediation in Schools and Commercial Buildings, accessed 2026-09-21
Dry it in place, or take the wall out?
That is mostly a question of how long it has been wet. Send the date it happened and what the room smells like now.
Bloomfield keeps two lists, and one of them pays for work
Bloomfield keeps two lists where most towns around it keep none, and you should use that. Its engineering function keeps a list of properties damaged by flooding and, uniquely in this area, a second list of owners interested in flood mitigation, and grant funded work is allocated off lists like that one, so getting your address onto it costs a phone call. The township also has staff formally credentialed in floodplain rules, which is not true in half the towns around it, so a question about elevation requirements can be answered rather than guessed. Construction permits come from Bloomfield under Chapter 149 of its own code. Water is supplied by the Newark Water Department rather than a township utility, so a suspected service line problem is not a township matter. On the ground, Bloomfield runs from about 81 to 217 feet and sits directly below the Montclair and Glen Ridge slope, which means it receives what falls on three towns uphill of it. The township has named its own problem areas: erosion along the Third River that is putting private property at risk, a streambank on Toney's Brook that needs stabilizing, and the stormwater system along Ampere Parkway. On an old Bloomfield basement the realistic goal is controlled water, a working pump and a dry wall face, not a sealed box.
Areas within Bloomfield: Brookdale, Watsessing, Bloomfield Center, Ampere Parkway, Third River corridor
Where we work in Bloomfield, Brookdale to Watsessing
Mold Inspection and Moisture Survey
Find out where the water is arriving, from which side of the building, and whether there is a mold job here at all, in a written report from a company that is not selling you the removal.
Mold Inspection in Bloomfield →Mold Removal and Remediation
Take out the material the mold has grown into, under containment, and put the room back with the original plaster, trim and stonework treated as worth saving, all priced against a scope somebody else wrote.
Mold Removal in Bloomfield →Water Damage Drying and Flooded Basement Cleanup
Water out and the structure dried inside the one to two day window that separates a cleanup from a strip out.
Water Damage Drying in Bloomfield →Tell us which storm did it
We will work out what is salvageable, what is not, and which trade the job actually needs. No obligation.