Water Damage Restoration in Lake Dunlap, TX

Lake Dunlap is the first of the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority's hydroelectric lakes on the Guadalupe below New Braunfels, formed by a dam built in 1928 just over the Guadalupe County line. The houses around it are lake houses: 1950s and 1960s cabins, 1980s and 1990s brick homes with boat docks, and newer two-stories that replaced cabins as the lake became a year-round address for people working in New Braunfels and San Antonio.

On May 14, 2019, one of the dam's ninety-year-old spill gates failed and the lake drained to a river channel in hours, leaving docks hanging over mud for four years. Property owners taxed themselves to rebuild it, and the new dam was finished in 2023; refilling began on August 31 of that year. The shoreline clay cracked and shifted while it was dry, and some foundations and pipes moved with it.

This site routes Lake Dunlap homeowners to an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider checks the house and the shoreline side of it before writing a scope.

Lake Dunlap water damage in houses that lost their lake and got it back

A line that cracked when the clay moved during the dry years is leak detection, often under the slab. A frozen hose bib or dock line that soaked a garage is water extraction. A ceiling stain under an attic tank in a 2000s two-story is ceiling water damage repair, and the tank gets checked first.

The river authority that owns the dam

The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority operates the Dunlap dam and posts lake levels and release notices. Permits for Lake Dunlap lots come from Guadalupe County or, for addresses inside the city limits, from New Braunfels. Say which side of the line you are on when you call.

Call (830) 356-7502 and describe what you found. We route the call to a local water damage provider serving Lake Dunlap.