Water in the house. A county growing faster than its pipes.

Waller County was the fastest-growing county in Texas last year.

Census Bureau estimates put Waller County second in the entire country for growth between mid-2024 and mid-2025, adding nearly 3,800 residents in a single year. The county has gone from 56,769 people in 2020 to almost 70,000 now, and planners expect it to clear 120,000 by 2040. More than 43,000 new homes are planned or under construction along the U.S. 290 corridor alone.

That kind of growth means two different kinds of water damage calls. One is the hundred-year-old farmhouse near the Brazos bottomland, where the ground has always flooded and always will. The other is a slab poured eighteen months ago in a subdivision off FM 362, where a fitting was rushed and a manifold cracked before the first mortgage payment cleared.

We work both. The Brazos River's floodplain west of Hempstead is defined by old meander channels and oxbow lakes left behind as the river shifted course over centuries. That flat, slow-draining ground means water sits instead of running off, and railroad embankments and road fill across the county make natural ponding worse in a heavy rain. Meanwhile builders racing to keep pace with 43,000 planned lots are pouring PEX manifolds and slab plumbing on compressed schedules, and a rushed connection under a new slab shows up as a wet baseboard six months later.