Department of Planning and Zoning, City of Annapolis
Permits for addresses inside city limits
Its office sits at 145 Gorman Street, 3rd Floor, and answers at 410-260-2200. You submit permit applications through its Citizen Self Service portal.
Wardour Basement Cleanup
How This Annapolis Basement Water Guide Is Built
Public records, read and dated for Annapolis basements.
Wardour Basement Cleanup is a guide to water in Annapolis basements, built from public records. We take the name from Wardour, the West Annapolis neighborhood that Elizabeth Giddings named north of the Baltimore & Annapolis Short Line tracks.
We publish what the records show about permit offices, sewer rules, flood maps, freezes, and housing. Your restoration company prices and performs the work, and you decide who you hire.
How a Page Gets Researched, Checked, and Dated
We run every sourced fact on a page through these 4 steps.
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Find the Owner of the Fact
We start with the office, statute, or standards body that owns the fact, such as the City of Annapolis or US EPA.
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Read the Document and Log the Quote
We read the document and log a supporting quote, its URL, and the date. Our Annapolis figures also carry their method, such as 6,290 of 10,508 buildings.
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Hold Back What We Did Not Confirm
A fact stays off the page when a site blocks our read or 2 pages disagree. City of Annapolis pages list different sewer phone numbers, so we print none of them.
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Date the Source and Set a Recheck
We record the check date and a recheck date for each document. You can see each document and its check date on the source list page.
What This Guide Covers
This guide covers basement water in Annapolis and nearby Anne Arundel County, from removal and drying to mold and insurance decisions. Waterproofing, foundation repair, sump pump replacement, and plumbing repair belong to other trades, and we name them only as steps.
Ask your restoration company about these 6 job parts: inspection, water category and class, extraction, drying to documented goals, sanitizing where required, and permitted repairs. You can then ask how it handles each part under the IICRC S500, Fifth Edition, 2021.
The Local Offices Behind These Pages
These 4 offices handle permits, city water and sewer, and electric and gas, and we state only what we confirmed.
City of Annapolis Department of Public Works
City water and sewer
Its Utilities Division at 39 Hudson Street handles water distribution, sewer collection, and stormwater. You can report sewer problems and water main leaks through the City Report an Issue page.
Anne Arundel County Inspections and Permits
Permits for addresses outside city limits
Its Permit Center at 2664 Riva Road accepts your building, grading, trade, and subdivision permit applications. The department also conducts building inspections.
BGE
Electric and gas in Anne Arundel County
You reach BGE at (877) 778-2222 about outages or downed wires, and at (877) 778-7798 about gas odors, per the Maryland Office of People's Counsel.
What to Verify Before You Hire a Restoration Company
These checks tell you what to verify for each stage of the job, and this site names no company as vetted.
The Maryland Home Improvement Commission (MHIC) says demolition and clean-up work falls outside its definition of home improvement, so that work needs no MHIC license. Repair or replacement of a residential building falls inside the definition. We found no MHIC statement on extraction or drying alone, so you can raise that point with MHIC.
We did not confirm a public IICRC lookup page, so ask the company directly. Ask which technicians hold an IICRC certification and which S500 edition the company follows. The ANSI/IICRC S500 in force is the Fifth Edition, 2021.
Ask whether the written estimate shows the scope, the measured area, the materials to remove, and the price. Ask whether the drying documentation shows dated moisture readings for each material against the S500 drying goal.
Maryland Insurance Article section 10-403 requires a license before a person acts as a public adjuster. Section 10-401 defines that role as acting for the insured in negotiating or settling a first-party property claim. You can ask the Maryland Insurance Administration who is able to represent you on a claim.
- Search the contractor on MHIC License Search when your job includes repairs.
- Ask who holds the Maryland Board of Plumbing license when your job includes plumbing work.
- Ask whether your county requires a local electrician registration when your job includes electrical work.
- Ask for the written estimate after the inspection and before work starts.
- Ask to see the moisture readings for each wet material.
Raise these checks with a local restoration company on the call, before anyone starts work in your basement.
(410) 755-8694The facts on this page come from 20 public documents, among them records from City of Annapolis, Maryland State Archives, and Maryland Office of People's Counsel. The basement facts and their sources page lists each one with its check date.
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