About SanTan Village
SanTan Village sits at Williams Field Road and the 202 in southeast Gilbert. The mall and the surrounding shopping has been the anchor for this part of town since 2007 and the residential build out around it picked up right alongside it. Some are pushing twenty years old now. Others are closer to ten. Either way the original plumbing, water heaters, and appliance hoses are at the age where things start letting go.
The townhome and condo communities around the mall add their own situation. Common wall plumbing runs through assemblies that affect more than one address.
The soil out here moves with monsoon moisture and the dry stretches in between. Slab foundations and the pipes under them take that movement year after year. Homes in the SanTan Village area are right in the window where slab leaks start showing up.
Plenty of the residents around here are working professionals, families with both parents working, renters in the apartment communities. Houses and units sit empty during the day. Water that starts going somewhere it shouldn’t has hours before anyone is around to catch it.
