Water Damage in Roswell, GA: City Water, County Sewer

Atlanta's rain gauge logged 48.14 inches in 2022 and 69.43 in 2009, and a Roswell house feels both kinds of year. For a wet floor, ceiling or drain, start with water extraction and drying. When water has reached more than one room, call (678) 679-2562 and give the street address.

Call (678) 679-2562

Brick houses with black shutters on a tree-lined street in Roswell, Georgia

Rain, wind and cold

NWS Atlanta's 2022 summary for the Atlanta station shows 48.14 inches of rain against a normal of 49.71, with the biggest single day at 2.40 inches on June 26. Its 2009 page shows 69.43 inches, a year it ranks second wettest there. Roswell sits north of that station, so rain at your address may differ. Yearly totals say little about one storm, so note the day the water arrived and photograph it.

Tips for this town

Roswell Water Utility serves only part of the city. Its line is (770) 641-3707, staffed on weekdays between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m.; after hours, leaks go through police dispatch at (770) 640-4100.
Customers outside the utility's service area get water from Fulton County, 770-640-3040. The utility's page says Fulton handles every sewer line in Roswell, and Fulton lists 404-612-3061 for sewer concerns, day and night.
The utility publishes its service area as a PDF map, the quickest way to learn which of the two answers for your street.
Census figures put Roswell's median house at 1989 (margin of error 2) and ZIP 30076's at 1987 (margin of error 1). A contractor may want to know the age of the pipes and the water heater.
When water keeps coming through a ceiling or a wall after the supply is off, call (678) 679-2562.
Call (678) 679-2562

What to ask in this town

What the housing numbers suggest asking about

About 32.8 percent of Roswell's 37,439 homes went up in the 1980s and 20.5 percent in the 1990s (margins of error 855 and 766). A house from those decades can be on its first water heater or its third, so a useful question for the contractor is which parts are original. The label on the heater gives its date.

Renters hold 9,990 of the city's 35,540 occupied homes, about 28.1 percent (margin of error 771), and 32.2 percent in ZIP 30076. A renter starts with the landlord or building manager. An owner or landlord can call (678) 679-2562 with the address.

Where the water comes from and goes

Which pipe is it, and who answers?

On a Roswell street the water comes from one of two places, and the sewer from one. Roswell Water Utility runs a treatment plant and 89 miles of distribution mains, yet its page says the plant serves only part of the city. Fulton County handles the rest of the residents and all sewer lines.

On your own lot, UGA Extension wants downspouts that carry roof water 6 to 10 feet from the foundation, over ground that falls about 6 inches across that distance.

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Checked 1 Nov 2026