WS Water & Sewer digs and replaces water and sewer lines in Ootischenia, where large lots often mean long line runs to the property line.
Long runs, easy ground
Houses here are often set well back from the road, so a line to the property line can run a long distance. Longer lines mean more trench, which is the main thing that drives the price.
The sandy, gravelly ground digs cleanly, which helps keep long runs affordable.
We find out from the local water system where its part of an Ootischenia line ends before the machine arrives.
Planning an Ootischenia job
On a long run the trench route matters. We look for the shortest path that avoids trees, driveways and gardens, then show you where it will go.
After a long winter a line laid too shallow can show it, with a wet stretch across the yard or a sudden loss of pressure indoors.
Ootischenia yards often have room for the machine, so access is rarely the hard part here.
On a long Ootischenia run, repairing one broken section can sometimes save replacing the whole line, and we'll tell you which makes more sense.
Near Ootischenia
Across the river we also work in Castlegar and Robson. See finding and digging up a line for how we find a line before digging.
Our line work, serving Ootischenia
See how we do it
Video transcript
Sewer backing up? The sewer line from your house may be failing. Step 1: Find the line, and BC 1 Call marks the other lines. Step 2: We dig down to the old line. Step 3: The broken pipe comes out. Step 4: New pipe on a sand bed, set at the right slope. Step 5: We connect it and test it, before anything is buried. Step 6: Backfill in layers and compact, so the yard doesn't sink later. A service line in the trench, by WS Water & Sewer. Sewer line trouble? Call WS Water & Sewer.
Water or sewer line acting up?
Phone us, or use the form to describe the problem and add a picture of the yard.