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Passaic County

Mold Removal in Clifton NJ, From the River Edge to the North End

Tell us the neighborhood and we will tell you which of Clifton's two water problems you have and what the work involves. The city runs from about one foot above sea level on the Passaic to about 433 feet in the north, so a Delawanna basement and an Athenia one need close to opposite work, and Clifton is the one place we cover whose flood records sit in Passaic County rather than Essex.

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1938Median year a Montclair home was built, 42 years older than the national median
18 to 36 inchesDepth the water table perches in this soil, November to May, which is basement wall height
24 to 48 hoursThe EPA window for drying wet material, after which the job stops being a drying job
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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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Question 1What are you dealing with?
Question 2Where in the house is it?

The three places that go wrong are not the same problem. A basement is usually taking water that arrived from outside. An attic is usually taking moisture the house made itself and could not vent. A bathroom or closet is usually neither. Much of the housing around here went up before 1939, which decides what is behind the surface in all three cases.

Question 3Which way does that wall face, and is the ground outside it higher?

Direction narrows a survey faster than the size of the patch does. Where the ground rises on one side of a building, water moves sideways through shallow soil and reaches the foundation on that side, so the wall the damp shows on is often downstream of the wall it came through. Where the lot is level, the answer still helps, because then we are looking at the drains, the grade and the downspouts instead. Either answer is useful and not knowing is a normal answer.

Question 4Is anything still wet?

The EPA puts mold growth on wet material inside roughly 24 to 48 hours, so this answer sets the pace of everything that follows.

Question 5What made you look into it today?

Montclair property changes hands constantly and a lot of these start with a contract date rather than a smell. What is driving the timing changes what the report has to do.

Who you are, and which building

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Clifton paperwork is Passaic County paperwork, not Essex

If you are researching a Clifton address, the Essex County documents that everyone else in this area links to do not cover you. Clifton's flood hazard mapping comes from the Flood Insurance Study for Passaic County dated April 17, 2020, its hazard mitigation annex sits inside the Passaic County plan, and its federal community number is 340398 rather than the 3401xx numbers used across Essex. The office to ask is the Clifton City Engineer, not a county office in Newark, and a contractor who quotes you Essex County procedure has not checked. The city is also the largest and most mixed housing market here at 34,611 units, median year 1951, with 31 percent predating 1940, so the foundation in front of you could be almost anything. Two numbers should shape how you treat a Clifton lower level. First, 89 of the city's 167 paid flood claims were rated outside the high risk zone and 101 of the 167 were coded rainfall rather than stream overflow, so being off the flood map is not protection. Second, after Ida, 1,412 Clifton owner households registered with FEMA and 948 were approved, the largest caseload anywhere in this service area. If you bought after 2021, ask specifically what was done to the lower level between September 2021 and the sale, because New Jersey now requires a seller to put water seepage from heavy rain in writing with a count of how many times, and a basement that was repaired is not the same as a basement that was dried.

Areas within Clifton: Botany Village, Athenia, Richfield, Delawanna, Allwood, Lakeview, Dutch Hill, Montclair Heights

Wet leafy Montclair street with stone retaining wall and colonial clapboard porch homes
Stone foundation with white efflorescence beside hostas and damp mulch under clapboard siding
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River side, or the north end?

Those two halves of Clifton need opposite work. Send the cross streets and we will tell you which one you are dealing with.

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Clifton cover, Botany Village through Montclair Heights

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.

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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.

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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.

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We say when there is nothing worth selling youA summer basement smell is often condensation on a cold wall. A meter and a dehumidifier settle that, and we will say so.
Whoever surveys is not whoever removesNew Jersey does not require that split, so it is arranged rather than assumed, and the removal is priced against a scope it did not write.
Prewar houses are handled as prewar housesClose to six in ten Montclair homes predate 1940. Trim comes off, gets labeled and goes back, and that is in the scope before work starts.
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Where Clifton's 167 paid flood claims were actually rated

Weathered metal downspout leaking onto wet cedar shingles

Clifton is a Passaic County city, not an Essex County municipality, and it is the only one in this service area. Its flood hazard mapping comes from the Flood Insurance Study for Passaic County dated April 17, 2020, its hazard mitigation annex sits in the Passaic County plan rather than the Essex County plan, and its NFIP community number is 340398 against the 3401xx numbers used across Essex.

Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, OpenFEMA NFIP Community Status Book, accessed 2026-09-21

USGS elevation values sampled on a 163 point grid inside Clifton run from about 1 foot above sea level on the Passaic River edge to about 433 feet on the higher ground in the north of the city.

Source: United States Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program point query service, accessed 2026-09-21

Clifton has 167 paid federal flood insurance claims totaling about $7.84 million, an average near $47,000 a claim. Of those, 89 were rated in zone X, B or C, that is outside the Special Flood Hazard Area, against 43 rated in zone A or AE, and 101 of the 167 are coded as accumulation of rainfall or snowmelt rather than stream overflow.

Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, OpenFEMA FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims v2, accessed 2026-09-21

After the remnants of Hurricane Ida, owner households in Clifton's four ZIP codes registered with FEMA in larger numbers than anywhere else in this service area: 573 in 07011, 571 in 07013, 208 in 07012 and 60 in 07014, a total of 1,412 registrations. Some 948 of those households were approved for assistance, and inspectors recorded about $6.19 million of damage.

Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, OpenFEMA Housing Assistance Program Data Owners, disaster 4614, accessed 2026-09-21

Clifton city, the only Passaic County municipality in this service area, has 34,611 housing units, more than twice Montclair's total, with a median year built of 1951 and 10,813 units, 31.2 percent, built in 1939 or earlier. Some 69.1 percent of the stock predates 1960.

Source: United States Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 five year estimates, accessed 2026-09-21

Under P.L.2023 c.93, a New Jersey seller must disclose on the property condition disclosure statement whether the property is in a FEMA Special or Moderate Risk Flood Hazard Area and any actual knowledge of flood risks, before the purchaser becomes obligated under any contract. The prescribed questions include whether the seller has ever filed a flood damage claim with any insurer including the National Flood Insurance Program and the amount received, and whether the property has experienced any flood damage, water seepage or pooled water due to a natural flood event such as heavy rainfall, and if so how many times.

Source: New Jersey Legislature, P.L.2023 c.93, accessed 2026-09-21

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Bought after 2021? Ask what was actually done

Send what you are seeing in the lower level and we will tell you whether it was dried or only repaired. Phones answered 24/7.

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