Underground Leak Detection & Repair in Georgetown, TX

The meter moves, but nothing in the house explains it

A buried supply-line leak almost never announces itself above ground. It simply drains water into the soil while the meter keeps ticking, and the first notice a homeowner gets is a bill that climbed for no visible reason. By the time a wet patch finally appears on the surface, the leak has often been running for weeks, because Georgetown's thin limestone-laced soil drains water downward rather than letting it pool.

Reading the meter first is the move that avoids wasted guesswork. If the leak indicator turns with every fixture off, pressurized water is escaping somewhere between the meter and the house, and the buried service line is the prime suspect before anyone starts looking at the yard.

Why buried leaks are hard to find

Soil swallows the evidence. A line leaking under a lawn may never make a visible puddle, especially in the thin, rocky ground common across Georgetown, where water drains fast into the limestone below. The clues are subtle: a patch that stays green and spongy, soil that sinks or cracks along a line, a meter that creeps with every fixture off.

Telling a buried supply leak apart from an irrigation leak or a sewer leak is the first real task, because all three can wet the same yard. We sort that out before we narrow the location.

Locating it through the ground

We pressurize the suspect line and listen with ground microphones and a correlator, equipment built to hear a leak through soil and pavement and pinpoint it along the run. Line tracing maps the path of the buried pipe so we know exactly where it goes, and the correlator marks where it is losing water. The result is a small flag in the yard rather than a guess.

Only after the spot is confirmed do we dig, a single targeted hole instead of a trench chasing the pipe across the lawn.

Repairing the buried line

A clean break in a sound line is a quick splice once we have exposed it. A service line that has corroded along its length, common where old galvanized or poly was used, is better replaced than patched, since the next failure is usually close behind. We will tell you which situation you have based on what the line is made of and how it failed.

Where the run passes under a driveway or mature landscaping, a trenchless replacement can pull a new line through with minimal surface damage, which spares the hardscape and the trees.

Knowing where your responsibility starts

On a Georgetown property, the homeowner generally owns the water service line from the meter to the house, so a leak on that stretch is yours to repair even though the meter belongs to the utility. Knowing exactly where the leak sits along that line tells you whether you are dealing with a small repair near the house or a longer run out toward the curb. We mark it clearly so there is no confusion about scope.

That clarity also helps if a claim is involved, since a leak documented to an exact point on your service line is far easier to act on than a vague wet spot somewhere in the yard.