Essex County
Mold Removal in Nutley, Where the Storm Drains Run Backward
Tell us the street and we will say what the mold in front of you needs now, and whether a backflow device would have stopped the water that caused it. Nutley's own hazard annex reports that the Passaic River surcharges the local storm collection system at high tide, so on the river side of this township the drains can run backward with no storm involved at all.
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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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Eight severe repetitive loss addresses sit inside Nutley
Nutley's 2025 hazard mitigation annex states that during high tide the Passaic River surcharges the local storm collection system, causing local flooding conditions.
Source: Essex County Office of Emergency Management, 2025 Hazard Mitigation Plan Update, Volume II, municipal annexes, accessed 2026-09-21
USGS elevation values sampled on a 177 point grid inside Nutley township run from about 2 feet below sea level on the Passaic River edge to about 235 feet on the western side. Nutley contains the lowest ground of any municipality in this service area.
Source: United States Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program point query service, accessed 2026-09-21
Nutley's 2025 annex names the locations that flood during heavy rain of about four inches or more in a short period, in addition to the mapped flood zones: Hope Street, Milton Avenue and Bloomfield Avenue; Rhoda Avenue, Mapes Avenue and Stanley Avenue at the stormwater basins; the intersections of Bloomfield Avenue and Raymond Avenue, Hancox Avenue and Nicola Place, and Cross Street and Evergreen Avenue; Hancox Avenue near Passaic Avenue; and Centre Street east of Bloomfield Avenue.
Source: Essex County Office of Emergency Management, 2025 Hazard Mitigation Plan Update, Volume II, municipal annexes, accessed 2026-09-21
Nutley has the most severe repetitive loss properties of any municipality in this service area: the 2025 county plan credits it with 26 repetitive loss properties and 8 severe repetitive loss properties, against 230 active flood insurance policies, 338 claims and about $6.89 million in payments. The township also notes that despite this exposure it does not participate in the Community Rating System.
Source: Essex County Office of Emergency Management, 2025 Hazard Mitigation Plan Update, Volume II, municipal annexes, accessed 2026-09-21
Nutley's annex reports that the Third River flows through the park system in the center of the township, that existing gabion walls and natural shorelines need examination because there have been previous failures of structural streambank and erosion of natural streambank, and that where the Third River meets St Pauls Brook and flows under the Passaic Avenue Bridge the flow hits a wall, slows and causes backup. A section of gabion wall has been installed on Passaic Avenue near Satterwaitte Avenue.
Source: Essex County Office of Emergency Management, 2025 Hazard Mitigation Plan Update, Volume II, municipal annexes, accessed 2026-09-21
After the remnants of Hurricane Ida, 574 owner households in Nutley ZIP code 07110 registered with FEMA, 491 were inspected, about $3.11 million of damage was recorded and 382 households were approved for about $2.11 million of assistance.
Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, OpenFEMA Housing Assistance Program Data Owners, disaster 4614, accessed 2026-09-21
Nutley township has 12,253 housing units with a median year built of 1953. Some 3,840 of them, 31.3 percent, were built in 1939 or earlier, and 63.2 percent predate 1960. Renters occupy 29.7 percent of occupied homes.
Source: United States Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 five year estimates, accessed 2026-09-21
Is your street on Nutley's list?
If it is, the job is designing for water that will come again. If it is not, the cause is closer to home. Send the address and we will tell you which.
Nutley publishes its flooding streets but keeps no damage list
Nutley has published the streets that flood in heavy rain, which almost no town does, and that list is the first thing to check against your address: Hope Street, Milton Avenue and Bloomfield Avenue, Rhoda, Mapes and Stanley at the stormwater basins, the intersections at Bloomfield and Raymond, Hancox and Nicola, and Cross and Evergreen, Hancox near Passaic Avenue, and Centre Street east of Bloomfield Avenue. If you are on it, design for repeat water. If you are not, the cause is probably on your own lot. There is also a known hydraulic pinch in the middle of town, where the Third River meets St Pauls Brook and hits the Passaic Avenue bridge, slows and backs up, so properties upstream of that bridge get wet before properties downstream do and a neighbor two streets away reporting nothing proves very little. The township does have staff credentialed in floodplain rules, but it keeps no list of flood damaged properties, so the address history comes from the seller's disclosure and the federal claim record. Permits are issued under Chapter 272 of the township code. Ground here runs from about two feet below sea level on the river edge to about 235 feet on the west side, and on the low side interior drainage to a pump is the answer, because no amount of exterior sealing moves a water table.
Areas within Nutley: Franklin Avenue, Hope Street, Milton Avenue, Centre Street, Passaic Avenue, Bloomfield Avenue
What we arrange on both sides of the Third River
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 Nutley →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 Nutley →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 Nutley →Send what came in, and how often
Repeat water and one-off water need different work. We will tell you which one you have and what it costs to handle.