Emergency Plumber in Lindenhurst, NYTides South of Montauk Highway, Older Pipe North of It

Sandy set the record here, but the National Weather Service's flood-impact notes for Lindenhurst list plenty of smaller events. On August 28, 2011, during Irene, white-capped water stood 1 to 2 feet deep on South Ninth Street from about 6:30 in the morning. In December 2014 a coastal storm put 13 inches of water on Seacrest Avenue and Lido Promenade, up to the doors of parked cars and into some garages. In October 2018 a nor'easter riding a full-moon tide pushed water over most of the bulkheads south of Montauk Highway; one Venetian Boulevard resident reported it kept rising for more than an hour after high tide, reaching about 180 feet in from the bay. Our overlay of FEMA's flood map puts about 14% of the village's area in the high-risk flood zone, nearly all of it zone AE.

The Census Bureau's latest survey puts Lindenhurst's median home at 1957, with 16% built before 1940. A galvanized supply line that old can split at a threaded joint without warning, so find your main shutoff before you need it, usually where the service comes through the front foundation wall. About 10% of homes are two-family houses, by the same survey; when the shared main drain stops, the downstairs unit floods first.