Home Gardens is the unincorporated square mile between Corona and Riverside along Magnolia Avenue, laid out in the 1920s as small-lot homesites for workers in the citrus packing houses and the Corona clay pits. The houses are 1920s to 1950s cottages and small ranch homes on narrow lots, many raised on short foundations, mixed with 1960s and 1970s slab homes where the orchards were last to go. About 12,000 people live here, and the neighborhood has kept its own water district and its own identity between two much larger cities.
The land is flat and sits between Temescal Wash on the west and the Arlington flats on the east, and storm water from both directions crosses it slowly. The February 2024 atmospheric river left water standing on the low streets south of Magnolia. The old cottages are on galvanized pipe that has been rusting shut for seventy years, and the 1960s slabs are on copper that the hard water has been eating from the inside.
This site routes Home Gardens homeowners to an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider sets the scope from readings inside the house.
A leak under a raised 1930s cottage drips into the crawl space, and the water extraction crew checks the subfloor and joists from below before drying the room above. A warm floor in a 1960s slab house is a leak detection call. Street water across a garage after a storm is storm flood cleanup.
Home Gardens is outside both Corona and Riverside, so rebuild permits for drywall, plumbing, and wiring come from Riverside County. The Riverside-Corona Resource Conservation District, which has worked on the soils and washes of this corner of the county since 1953, covers the ground Home Gardens sits on.
Call (951) 631-2989 and tell us what you found. We route the call to a local water damage provider serving Home Gardens.
Standing water pulled off slab-floor tile, laminate, and carpet in a Riverside house, then the first meter readings to see how far it ran.
Air movers and dehumidifiers run until slab-side drywall, cabinets, and flooring hit their dry target, even on a cool, damp January week.
A warm tile, a spinning meter, or a soft wall traced to a pitted copper line under the slab or inside a wall before anyone cuts concrete.
Carpet, laminate, and the bottom of the walls soaked by a line that failed under the slab, dried out and documented once the plumber has it stopped.
Muddy street runoff and Santa Ana River bottom water pulled out of a garage or ground floor after an atmospheric river, with contaminated materials removed.
A tank that let go in a garage, side-yard closet, or hall cabinet and the drywall and flooring it soaked on the way across the slab.
A stained, sagging, or dripping ceiling under a second-floor bath, a roof-mounted swamp cooler, or an attic air handler, dried and opened only where wet.
Wet attic insulation, ceilings, and walls dried out after Santa Ana winds lifted tile or a winter storm found the valley flashing.