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Stop the water at the fixture or the main shutoff if you can reach it safely. Keep people out of rooms with standing water, wet ceilings or water near outlets and panels, and do not run a household vacuum in standing water. Photograph what you can before you move anything. Then call (561) 960-0937 and describe the source, the rooms affected and whether the water is clean, cloudy or came in from outside. Those details decide what equipment comes out and what material may have to be removed.

Mold needs moisture, organic material and time, and inland Palm Beach County supplies the first two for most of the year. Growth can begin in about a day or two on a damp surface, and a closed house with the air conditioning off can support it faster. The response is to stop the source and dry the material, not to wait for a visible patch. A musty smell in one room is reason enough to read the wall base and the cabinet floors.

Yes. Rain that enters at a door track or a window is usually a clean-water loss, and more material can be dried in place. Canal water is surface water: it can carry sediment, lawn chemicals and whatever else the canal has picked up, so material that took it is usually assessed as contaminated and removed rather than dried. The two need different scopes even when the same room is wet.

The Acme Improvement District maintains roughly 86 miles of canals, about 978 acres of lakes and eight pump stations across its service area, and that system moves storm water away from streets and lots. It does not make an individual house waterproof. Wellington is flat and the water table is high, so in a heavy storm the ground can be saturated while the canals are full, and water finds the lowest opening: a door threshold, a garage slab, a lanai or a wall base.