Noble Park
Blocked, burst or leaking in Noble Park?
Blocked drains, burst pipes and leaks in Noble Park, from the postwar streets to Mile Creek, passed to a licensed plumber day and night.
Plumbing in Noble Park
Mile Creek, a relief sewer and postwar drains
Noble Park filled quickly after the Second World War, and that growth through the late fifties and sixties can be traced by school openings. Houses from those years are old enough for sewer drains with cracked or root-affected joints.
South East Water has laid a new relief sewer for Noble Park customers as part of its Mile Creek upgrade, to add capacity and cut surcharges and spills in wet weather. When a drain backs up during heavy rain, the fault may be in the corporation's main rather than the property line, so South East Water is asked about the main before a camera result is taken as the whole answer.
Stormwater from the suburb runs to Mile Creek, and council has fitted a gross pollutant trap on one key drain to keep rubbish out of it. Paint, washdown water and litter belong nowhere near a stormwater pit for the same reason.
Jobs in Noble Park
Old joints, new mains and young roots
Blocked drains
Postwar house drains whose joints have cracked or let roots in.
CCTV drain inspection
A camera along the property line, once South East Water confirms the state of the new relief sewer.
Pipe relining
A lining for joints that roots will reach from trees planted in every vacant street tree location.
What it costs: hot water replacement cost, gutter replacement cost, toilet installation cost
Noble Park questions
Wet weather backups and young street trees
Why does the drain overflow only when it rains hard?
Heavy rain loads the sewer system, and when the main is full the lowest fitting on a property can overflow first. That is the problem the corporation's upgrade was built to reduce, so a wet weather backup is reported to South East Water as well as checked on the property side.
Can young nature strip trees reach house drains?
In time they can. Council is planting a tree in every vacant street tree location in central Noble Park before moving to the surrounding streets. As those roots spread toward sewer and stormwater connections, a repeat blockage is a case for a camera check of the joints.
