Water Damage Restoration in Lake Dallas, TX

Why is Lake Dallas named after a lake that now has another name?

The Corps built the Garza-Little Elm Dam between 1948 and 1954, and the old Garza Dam was breached in 1957 to create the reservoir, first called the Garza-Little Elm Reservoir. Congress named the Lewisville Dam in 1955. The city of Lake Dallas takes its name from the lake's original name, and sources disagree on when the lake got its present name, so we will not give a year.

The history matters for water damage because the town grew up with the shoreline. Houses near the water can be older than the subdivisions inland, and older houses may carry older supply lines, drains and roofing. The water damage restoration page describes what a full job involves from first call to final readings.

What should an owner of an older Lake Dallas house watch for during demolition?

Wet drywall, flooring and ceiling texture sometimes have to come out, and in houses built before the 1980s those materials may contain asbestos. Homes built before 1978 may also have lead paint. Ask the crew before anything is torn out, and check with the EPA and the Texas Department of State Health Services about testing.

This is a practical reason to ask the year a house was built. The crew will pause and confirm before a flood cut in an older house, because disturbing a suspect material costs more to fix than waiting for a test.

The practical test is simple. If the house predates the 1980s, treat popcorn ceilings, old vinyl flooring and the joint compound behind drywall as unknown until a lab says otherwise. The cost of a delay is small beside the cost of spreading a fiber through the house.

How does heavy rain move through a lake-edge city?

Lake Dallas residents live closer to the reservoir than most of the county, and the 2015 pool of record of 537.02 ft against a 522 ft normal pool is the reference point for talk about the shoreline. No source documents what that high water did in this town, so treat it as context only.

The practical issues are the ordinary ones: storm drains that fill, driveways that slope toward garages and yards that hold water against a slab. When water arrives from outside, it is flood water, and flood is usually a separate insurance question. The guide to the 2015 lake episode lays out what the record means for owners.

On a slab, water that reaches the wall base has no basement to drain into. It finds the lowest path, usually the garage threshold or a door sill, then spreads under flooring. The crew extracts what stands, checks the wall bottom with a meter and dries the slab surface and the cavities above it.

How do the four Lake Cities differ when a call comes in?

They look alike on a map and behave differently on the ground. Corinth, at 22,634 people, is the largest of the four and reads mostly as subdivisions. Lake Dallas, with 7,708, sits between that scale and Hickory Creek's 4,718, and Shady Shores, with 2,764, is the smallest and the one that began as a 1920s fishing camp.

For a call, the differences are practical. Bigger towns mean more newer slab homes with attic equipment, and the smaller lakeside ones mean more varied lots and older construction. A Lake Dallas street can share ZIP 75065 with Hickory Creek, so the address, not the postal code, tells us which town's rules and permits apply to your repair.

That is also why we do not promise a travel time to any of them. Crews leave as fast as one is available, and the distance from Lewisville to Lake Dallas, about 9.1 km, is only one part of that.