Wells Branch is the planned community in Travis County just south of Pflugerville and the Williamson County line, thirteen miles north of downtown Austin along I-35. It went up in the 1980s around Mills Pond and the creek that names it, run by a municipal utility district that residents took over from the developer in 1987. About 14,000 people live on two and a half square miles at 820 feet, which makes it the densest place on this site.
The houses are 1980s and early 1990s one- and two-story homes on slabs, with mature live oaks, small lots, and copper or galvanized plumbing that is now forty years old. Wells Branch creek drains to Walnut Creek and on to the Colorado, and the low streets along the greenbelt take water after a hard rain.
Wells Branch homeowners who call this line reach an independent local water damage provider. The provider meters the house before the scope exists.
A pinhole in the copper under a 1985 slab shows up as a warm tile or a high bill, and slab leak detection finds it before the floor comes up. A garage or hall-closet water heater that finally rusted through is water heater leak cleanup work. An attic line that split in the February 2021 freeze is burst pipe water damage, and the March 2022 tornado passed within a mile of here before it reached Round Rock.
The Wells Branch Community Library on Wells Port Drive was created by election in August 1998 as one of the first library districts in Texas, funded by a half-cent sales tax, which says something about how this community handles its own affairs. Because Wells Branch is unincorporated, rebuild permits go through Travis County rather than Pflugerville or Austin.
Call (512) 855-6202 and say what you walked into. Wells Branch calls go to an independent local water damage provider.
Water pumped and vacuumed off slab floors, tile, and carpet in a Pflugerville house, then every room metered to see how far it traveled.
Dehumidifiers and air movers run against Blackland Prairie humidity until drywall, cabinet bases, and subfloor read dry on the meter.
A warm tile, a cupped hallway floor, or a meter that spins with every tap closed traced to the slab line before any concrete opens.
Ceilings, walls, and floors soaked when an attic or garage line split in a February freeze, pumped out and dried once the valve is off.
Gilleland or Wilbarger Creek water and street runoff pulled out of a garage or ground floor, soaked materials removed, and the house dried.
An attic or garage tank that let go and the insulation, ceiling, and flooring it soaked on the way down, dried and documented.
A stained or sagging ceiling under an upstairs bath, an attic air handler, or a drain pan, opened only where the readings say wet.
Wet attic insulation, ceilings, and walls dried after hail, a spring downpour, or wind found a gap in a Pflugerville roof.