Water & Fire Damage Restoration
Sansom Park, TX

Sansom Park is a small northwest Tarrant County city bordered by Lake Worth to the north and west, River Oaks to the south, and Fort Worth to the east. The city sits in a geographic position where two separate water features — Lake Worth and the West Fork Trinity — create converging flood risk during severe weather events. Heavy rain that causes Lake Worth to rise pushes water south toward Sansom Park drainage channels. Simultaneously, the West Fork Trinity, which runs along the River Oaks border, backs up storm drain outfalls that serve Sansom Park streets. During sustained heavy rain events, this convergence overwhelms the storm drainage infrastructure faster than in areas with exposure to only one water feature.

Housing in Sansom Park is a mix of mid-century stock from the 1950s and 1960s and later infill construction from the 1970s and 1980s. The older addresses carry the same aging-system profile as neighboring River Oaks — copper supply lines at or near pinhole-failure threshold, cast-iron drain systems with 60-plus years of corrosion, and slab foundations on active Tarrant County clay. The later infill construction introduced polybutylene supply lines in some addresses — a material that was installed widely in DFW from the mid-1970s through the early 1990s and has since proven prone to fitting failure from chlorine contact in municipal water.

Flood events in Sansom Park require category 3 cleanup protocols when standing water in the structure has contacted storm drain system backflow, which carries sewage contamination. S.W.A.T. Restoration handles the full response — extraction at flood volume, moisture mapping, category 3 containment and treatment where indicated, structural drying to IICRC S500 standards, mold remediation, and insurance documentation. Response from Aledo is 22 minutes — one of the fastest response profiles in this part of Tarrant County.