Drain, sewer cleaning & repair in Brick, NJ.

Drain and sewer service in Brick, NJ

Brick is the only town we serve where the regional treatment plant sits inside the township itself, and where one authority runs both the water and the sewer across more than seven hundred miles of pipe. That scale, and the twenty-six sewage pump stations holding it together, shapes what goes wrong in a Brick drain.

What we handle in Brick

• Drain cleaning for kitchen, bath and laundry lines
• Main sewer line cleaning from the cleanout to the lateral at the curb
• Camera inspections on lagoon-front and older inland properties
• Hydro jetting for grease, sand and root-packed lines
• Sewer line repair and replacement
• Emergency service nights, weekends and holidays

Infiltration is the story in Brick, and the numbers are public

When groundwater and stormwater get into a sanitary sewer system that was built to carry sewage, engineers call it infiltration and inflow. In a flat, low-lying township that depends on pump stations to move wastewater uphill, it is not an abstraction. It is the thing that fills the system during wet weather and pushes backups into the lowest fixtures on the network.

Brick is dealing with it openly. The township MUA closed a loan of more than seven and a half million dollars through the New Jersey Water Bank specifically to rehabilitate or replace seventy-four sanitary sewer manholes across the township, described as showing signs of deterioration from moderate to severe. Manholes are where a great deal of groundwater enters an aging collection system, and seventy-four of them is a serious program.

The homeowner-side version of the same problem is written into the township code. Each improved property must be connected separately and independently, with grouping more than one property onto a single building sewer prohibited without written permission. The invert of a building sewer at the point of connection must be at the same elevation as the lateral or higher, never lower. And owners of buildings fronting a street with a sewage disposal line must make the connection at their own expense.

Those rules exist because elevation and separation are what keep one property’s problem from becoming its neighbor’s. On lagoon streets where the ground is low and the water table close, a lateral that is cracked, offset or sitting below its intended grade takes in groundwater year-round and hands the pump stations work they should not have.

Lagoon streets, sand, and what actually blocks a Brick line

Brick has both barrier island oceanfront and long stretches of bay and lagoon frontage, with the Metedeconk River and Forge Pond cutting through the middle of the township. On the lagoon and bay side, three things turn up in our cameras again and again: fine sand that has migrated into the line through a defect and settled into a bed, root hair at joints from the mature landscaping on those streets, and grease from ordinary kitchen use that sticks to a pipe wall already roughened by sand.

Cabling a line like that punches a hole through the blockage. Jetting scours the wall and flushes the sand bed out, which is usually the difference between calling us once and calling us every spring.

One local water note worth knowing: Brick draws about three quarters of its treated water from the Metedeconk River, with the rest from a reservoir and deep wells, and the utility reports no lead service lines in its system.

What Brick customers say

Darren Ghaffari had two leaking valves replaced, which is a small job done properly rather than upsold.

“Called Just Drains to change 2 leaky valves in laundry room. Nick came out quickly and replaced. Very prompt, clean, and price was very fair. I highly recommend.”

Darren Ghaffari

Vito Luppino got the diagnosis first and the solution second, in plain terms.

“Julio provided a thorough diagnosis of the problem and provided a clear and transparent solution. He was courteous, professional and a great representative of the company.”

Vito Luppino

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