Two building generations side by side means two failure profiles side by side, and restoration here needs fluency in both.
How do the two eras fail differently?
The company-town homes carry the classic early-century package — original plumbing generations, aging wiring in un-remodeled runs, basements and foundations that hold winter moisture, and plaster that hides leaks until stains surface. Save-first drying and selective openings protect what makes these homes historic.
The TOD era fails like modern construction: supply-fitting and appliance-line ruptures, water heaters, condo and townhome losses that travel through shared assemblies, and mixed-use buildings where a residential leak becomes a commercial claim one floor down. Per-space documentation and HOA coordination are standard equipment.
What's Hillsboro's water context around Orenco?
The city's serious floodplain sits south at Jackson Bottom, where the Tualatin's regular winter flooding sustains a 3,000-acre wetland system — the river ran at major flood in the December 1996 New Year's event. Orenco itself sits well north of that geography; its water arrives by pipe and weather, which is exactly why response speed matters more than floodplain maps here.
Utilities for documentation: City of Hillsboro water (a Joint Water Commission partner), Clean Water Services for sewer and stormwater, PGE, and NW Natural.
Summit's response picture for Hillsboro?
From the Portland headquarters on NE Marx Street — 2-Hour Emergency Guarantee on active water and fire emergencies across the service area, line answered live 24/7 at 800-769-1553, and one accountable scope from mitigation through rebuild with the 1-year unconditional labor warranty behind installation work.