Camera inspection
Before anything is dug, a camera on a flexible cable goes down the line and reports cracks, offset joints, roots and low spots, so the repair matches what is really there.
Sewer Line Repair in West New York
Sewer line repair starts with a camera and ends with the repair the camera shows is needed, whether that is cutting roots, fixing a broken section or replacing the line between the building and the sewer.
Call about a drain that keeps backing up, a smell coming from a floor drain or ground above the line that stays wet.
Ways to fix a sewer line
Root cutting
A joint choked with roots is cleared from inside the pipe, and the camera goes back through to confirm the line is open and the joint still holds.
Spot repair
When a pipe has failed at a single point, that point is dug out and the pipe replaced there, and the sewer line on either side of it keeps working.
A new sewer connection
When the line is broken, collapsed or past repair, the sewer connection is replaced from the building to the point where it meets the shared sewer.
A camera look at the lateral
The North Hudson Sewerage Authority collects and treats West New York’s sewage in a shared system that also serves Hoboken, Weehawken and Union City.
Its lateral guide says defective laterals let storm water rush into basements, and it suggests a camera inspection every 5 to 10 years, or sooner for older properties, and getting local permits before lateral repairs.
The Street Opening Application
The Building Department’s list of forms includes a Street Opening Application, and the authority’s sewer use policy says all excavation within the public right of way must be permitted through each municipality.
That covers a sewer connection that has to be dug up in the street, where the permit comes from the town and not from the authority.
Your building’s age and its sewer line
The sewer line age checker starts from West New York’s median build year, 1963, where half the homes were built in or before it, and you can change it to the year your own building went up. Nearly 7 in every 10 homes date from before 1980.
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