Nassau County
Mold Removal in Island Park, NY: 186 Lifted Slab Houses
The Village of Island Park reports 186 homes on monolithic foundations raised to cut future flood losses, which means 186 houses now have a code regulated, permanently vented space underneath them that did not exist when they were slabs. If yours is one of them, the mold question starts under the floor, and the Village's own ordinance is stricter than the federal minimum.
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Island Park's floodplain manager works for an outside engineering firm
Island Park is an incorporated village, but its floodplain management is contracted to an outside engineering firm with a floodplain manager on staff, so the person who answers a flood question here works for a consultancy rather than for the village, and the Village's Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance, last amended in 2019, exceeds the federal minimum. Check that village requirement before a scope is agreed for work under a lifted house, because an enclosure designed to let floodwater in and out on its own cannot lawfully be sealed to cure a moisture problem. One more thing shapes an Island Park call. At 41.2 percent renter occupied, the highest renter share in this coverage area, the person who finds the mold here is more often a tenant than an owner, so the first step is usually a written request to the landlord rather than a quote, and the state provides a route if that goes nowhere.
Was your Island Park house one of the 186?
Tell us what is under the floor now and what got built back in after the lift.
What we arrange in the Village of Island Park
Mold Inspection and Assessment
Find out whether there is a job here at all, how far the damp material actually runs, and what the written scope says, before anyone is paid to pull a wall apart.
Mold Inspection in Island Park →Mold Removal and Remediation
Get the growth and the material holding it out of the building, in the order New York's licensing rules set, and get an independent clearance report at the end of it.
Mold Removal in Island Park →Water Damage Restoration
Get the water out and the structure dry while drying is still the whole job, and get what happened written down for the claim.
Water Damage Restoration in Island Park →What 1,928 paid flood claims against 1,930 housing units tell an assessor
The Village of Island Park reports that 186 residences on monolithic foundations have been elevated to reduce future flood losses, that no properties in the village have been substantially damaged as a result of recent flood events, that floodplain management is designated to an outside engineering firm with a floodplain manager on staff, and that its Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance exceeds minimum requirements and was last amended in 2019.
Source: Nassau County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan, Village of Island Park Annex, accessed 2026-09-14
The Village of Island Park has 973 National Flood Insurance Program policies, 1,928 claims since 1978, $110,886,894 paid and 1,161 repetitive losses, in a village with 1,930 housing units in total.
Source: Nassau County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan, Base Plan, accessed 2026-09-14
Island Park has 1,930 housing units and is 41.2 percent renter occupied, the highest renter share of the communities in this coverage area, against 18.1 percent for Nassau County. Its median year of construction is 1960 and 67.5 percent of units were built in 1979 or earlier.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year, accessed 2026-09-14
The same FEMA report shows two changes since the 2021 county hazard plan. The Village of Freeport is now Community Rating System Class 8 with a 10 percent discount, current effective October 1, 2022, where the county plan recorded Class 7 and 15 percent. The Village of Island Park is now Class 8 with a 10 percent discount, entered October 1, 2020, where the county plan recorded its CRS participation as in progress.
Source: FEMA, NFIP Community Status Book Report, New York, accessed 2026-09-14
Federal flood regulation at 44 CFR 60.3(c)(5), quoted in FEMA NFIP Technical Bulletin 1, requires that a fully enclosed area below the lowest floor of a new or substantially improved building be designed to let floodwater in and out on its own, with at least two openings totaling one square inch of net open area for every square foot of enclosed area, the bottom of each opening no higher than one foot above grade.
Source: FEMA, NFIP Technical Bulletin 1, March 2020, accessed 2026-09-14
The New York State Department of Health tells tenants to ask the landlord or superintendent to inspect and repair persistent mold growth, water leaks or damage, and states that if the landlord is not taking care of the problem the tenant can ask the local building department or code enforcement official to inspect the home for water damage or leaks.
Source: New York State Department of Health, publication 7287, accessed 2026-09-14
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