Brookfield
Blocked, burst or leaking in Brookfield?
Blocked drains, burst pipes and leaks in Brookfield, from Djerriwarrh Creek to the Arnolds Creek reserve, passed to a licensed plumber day and night.
Plumbing in Brookfield
Early eighties streets, slab heave and two creeks
Victorian Places records that Brookfield's earliest housing area was adjacent to Melton South in the early 1980s, and plenty of land is still being built on. Those older eastern streets likely run early PVC sewer with rubber ring joints and copper water pipe, so tired seals are a likelier fault than broken clay.
Some owners complained of a waffle slab effect that caused slab heave problems after construction. Where a slab has lifted, the drains under and beside it can crack or part at the joints, so a repeat blockage or leak calls for a camera along the under slab and edge pipes.
To the west, its western boundary is Djerriwarrh Creek, which is also the shire's edge. Lots falling toward it are checked for their legal point of discharge and outfall before a property drain is blamed for stormwater that rises in heavy rain.
Jobs in Brookfield
Lifted slabs and rear yard pits
Blocked drains
Ageing rubber ring joints in the eighties eastern streets.
CCTV drain inspection
Under slab and edge pipes checked where a slab has heaved.
Gutters and downpipes
Rear yard pits and downpipes on lots backing the creek reserves.
What it costs: hot water replacement cost, gutter replacement cost, toilet installation cost
Brookfield questions
Creek reserves, separate houses and a heritage well
Why do rear pits silt up behind the creek reserve?
Houses backing the Arnolds Creek linear reserve sit beside the creek's drainage line, which Melton City Council lists as running between neighbourhood streets. Overland flow carries silt into rear yard pits, so that is the first suspect when stormwater backs up there.
Is a Brookfield drain ever shared with neighbours?
Hardly. The Census recorded no flats or apartments in the suburb, so most jobs are a separate house on its own sewer connection, and the main question is getting a machine through the side gate.
Does the heritage well change where a trench can go?
It can. The Botanica Springs well, a domed brick well recorded in the Victorian Heritage Inventory, is the kind of site where digging a sewer or stormwater trench nearby is likely to need Heritage Victoria's consent first, so its location is confirmed before any dig.
