Drain, sewer cleaning & repair in Lacey, NJ.

Drain and sewer service in Lacey, NJ

Lacey is a township of two very different halves. More than ninety-five percent of the housing sits in a narrow coastal band along Forked River and Lanoka Harbor. West of the Garden State Parkway is largely protected Pinelands forest. Almost everything we do here happens in that eastern strip, squeezed between the bay and the pines.

What we handle in Lacey

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

A township built on one narrow strip of buildable ground

Lacey covers a large area on the map and almost none of it is developed. The New Jersey Pinelands Commission lists Lacey among the municipalities inside the state-designated Pinelands Area, and west of the Parkway the township is mostly undisturbed pine and cedar forest. The result is that the housing, the sewer mains, the water lines and the people are all concentrated into the coastal band at Forked River and Lanoka Harbor.

Concentration has consequences for drains. The eastern strip includes bay-front and lagoon streets where the ground sits low and the water table is close to the surface, on the same sandy coastal plain material found throughout this county. In that ground a defect in a buried lateral does not leak outward. It takes groundwater in, and fine sand travels in with the water, settling into a bed inside the pipe while the bedding above the fault erodes away. The line sags, the defect widens, and the blockages get closer together.

The Lacey Municipal Utilities Authority was established in 1971 and provides both water and wastewater service, drawing from seven supply wells across three separate aquifer systems, which is unusual for a system this size. Wastewater is treated at the Ocean County Utilities Authority Central plant. Infrastructure of that era is now over fifty years old in its oldest sections, and the private laterals connected to it vary just as widely.

What we actually find in Forked River and Lanoka Harbor

Three things, in rough order of frequency. Sand in the line, which is the signature problem of low-lying sandy ground and which cabling never really removes. Roots at joints, from mature pines and landscaping on streets that have been established for decades. And grease, particularly on lagoon streets with seasonal occupancy where a house goes from light winter use to a full household in summer.

The reason we jet rather than only cable in this township is the sand. A cable passing through a sand bed bores a channel that closes again as soon as the flow drops. Jetting flushes the material out of the pipe entirely, and the camera afterwards shows where it was getting in. That is the difference between an annual call and a repair.

Septic in the western sections

Away from the sewered coastal band, properties in the sparsely developed western part of the township are on individual systems. We are a drain and sewer company rather than a septic contractor, so on those properties our role is the plumbing between your fixtures and the tank. We camera those lines and give you a clear answer about whether a problem is house-side or beyond it, which decides who you need next.

What Lacey customers say

Barbara Ferenzi had a well pipe failure, which is the kind of problem that stops a household completely until somebody sorts it.

“Thank you Danny & staff for your support & help with my well pipe disaster. You are the best!!! Thank you!”

Barbara Ferenzi

Frank Azzara got the part of a visit that people tend to value most afterwards, which is being told about the things they had not noticed yet.

“Ask for Anthony great guys and extremely knowledgeable, which helps a lot, pointed out things that i’m missed”

frank azzara

Pointing out what you have not seen yet is free, and it is usually what prevents the next call. Read more customer reviews.