Underground Water Lines in Midtown Columbus

Midtown (also written MidTown) is the part of Columbus, Georgia that fans out along Wynnton Road, east of Uptown. Per MidTown, Inc., it spans 24 neighborhoods and historic districts. According to Historic Columbus, six of them are contiguous National Register historic districts: Weracoba–St. Elmo, Overlook, Dinglewood, Wynnton Village, Peacock Woods–Dimon Circle and Wildwood Circle–Hillcrest. This page covers Midtown as a whole and the three districts that do not have a page of their own. For the rest of the city, start at the Columbus water line service overview.

Three of the six get a closer look elsewhere. Wynnton covers Wynnton Village and the Wynn's Hill–Overlook–Oak Circle district along the ridge, and Weracoba–St. Elmo covers the Lakebottom park and creek side of Midtown. Hilton Heights and Clubview Heights are also inside Midtown. They are mid-century subdivisions rather than historic districts, and they have their own page: Hilton Heights and Clubview Heights.

Dinglewood is one of the smaller districts. According to MidTown, Inc., Col. Joel Early Hurt bought about 30 acres here and finished an Italianate house in 1859, and the estate was subdivided into single-family lots between 1917 and 1946. The district is known for a privately owned circular park and a city-owned park. The National Register listing dates to November 21, 2001. Homes on lots carved from an estate can sit at odd angles to the street, so the path from the meter to the house is worth tracing on your own property before anyone digs.

Peacock Woods–Dimon Circle was started in 1922. MidTown, Inc. describes John Flournoy's Peacock Woods on the north side, laid out by landscape architect Earle S. Draper with curving streets and park-like settings, and Samuel Kelly Dimon's Dimon Circle to the south. Its styles run from Colonial Revival and Craftsman to English Vernacular Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival. Curving streets and large shade trees are worth knowing about when a trenchless water line replacement is being considered, because a bore path has to work around what is above and below ground.

Wildwood Circle–Hillcrest is bounded by Wildwood Avenue, 13th and 17th Streets and Dixon Drive, according to its National Register nomination, and contains 94 contributing buildings. It grew out of John F. Flournoy's 1890 Queen Anne house, Hillcrest, built on what the nomination calls the highest hill in the Wynnton area. His children built houses here from 1906 to 1951, and Flournoy's real-estate company subdivided Wildwood Circle in 1911. Homes built across that span, on hilly ground, are a good reason to start with underground leak detection before deciding between spot repair and main water line replacement.

The services on this page fit any Midtown yard: leak detection to find a problem before digging, spot repair, full replacement, trenchless replacement and directional boring for crossing hardscape. The right one depends on where the line runs and what sits above it.

On the smaller districts, that often means a circular park frontage, a hillside, a curving street or a mature oak beside the meter. Those details change access, so a site look matters more than the address.