Wells Branch is the planned community in Travis County just south of the Williamson County line, 13 miles north of downtown Austin and a short drive down I-35 from Round Rock. It was built in the 1980s around Mills Pond and the creek that gives it its name, and its municipal utility district passed from the developer to the residents when they won a majority of the board in 1987. The census counted 7,094 people in 1990 and 14,000 in 2020 on two and a half square miles, which makes it one of the densest places we cover.
The homes are 1980s and early 1990s one- and two-story houses on slabs at about 820 feet, with mature trees, small lots, and forty-year-old copper and galvanized plumbing. Wells Branch creek drains into Walnut Creek and on to the Colorado, and the low streets near the greenbelt take water after a hard rain.
This site routes Wells Branch homeowners to an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider sees the house before the scope exists.
A pinhole in forty-year-old copper under the slab shows up as a warm spot or a high bill, and leak detection finds it before the floor comes up. A water heater in the garage or a hall closet 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 touched down a mile from here before it crossed into Round Rock.
Wells Branch MUD runs the water and wastewater system and can close a meter at the curb if the house valve fails. Because the community is unincorporated, repairs that touch plumbing, framing, or wiring pull permits through Travis County rather than Round Rock or Austin.
Call (512) 562-9101 and tell us what you found. We route the call to a local water damage provider serving Wells Branch.
Standing water pumped off slab floors, tile, and carpet in a Round Rock home, then the first meter readings to see where it spread.
Air movers and dehumidifiers run against Central Texas humidity until drywall, cabinets, and subfloor hit their dry target.
A warm spot on the floor, a spinning meter, or a soft wall traced to a slab line or a wall pipe before anyone breaks concrete.
Rooms, ceilings, and floors soaked when an attic or exterior wall line split in a freeze, pumped out and dried once the valve is off.
Muddy creek water and street runoff pulled out of a garage or ground floor, contaminated materials removed, and the house dried.
A tank that let go in a garage, hall closet, or attic and the drywall, flooring, and ceiling it soaked on the way down.
A stained, sagging, or dripping ceiling under an attic air handler, an upstairs bath, or a drain pan, dried and opened only where wet.
Wet attic insulation, ceilings, and walls dried out after hail, a spring storm, or the 2022 tornado season found a way through the roof.