A City Built in Three Waves

The housing here arrived in chapters: the original blocks around Old Town from the city’s early decades, the broad middle built through the boom years between I-35E and the lake, and the newer construction of the Castle Hills era filling the southern edge. Each wave installed the plumbing of its time, and each generation fails on its own schedule and in its own style, which is why detection here starts by dating the home.

The water itself tells a local story too, pumped from Lewisville Lake and treated at the city’s own plant, and the city draws one line every homeowner should know: the city’s own utility service guidance states that the City maintains the mains and the service line to the meter, and trouble between the meter and the house belongs to the customer, with sewer stoppages sent to a plumber outright. Everything on the private side of that meter is exactly what this page covers.