Main Sewer Line Cleaning in Westminster, CA

Westminster was farmland into the 1950s, strawberries and beans mostly, and then filled in with tract housing across the 1960s. That gives the city a lateral population that is largely vitrified clay of a single generation, with Orangeburg appearing in some of the construction from the same period. Sixty years of the Southern California soil cycle has done what it does to jointed clay: the bells are no longer tight, and the open joints are where roots find their way in.

The ground is low and flat, part of the same Santa Ana River plain that runs through the neighbouring cities, with groundwater not far down. That combination means less of the aggressive dry-season joint separation found in the inland clay soils, but more infiltration through joints that have opened, and more trouble from loss of grade. On flat ground the designed fall is shallow to begin with, so a belly from ground settlement restricts flow sooner than the same dip would on a sloping lot.

Westminster carries a commercial sewer load out of proportion to its size because of Little Saigon, the dense concentration of restaurants, markets and food premises along Bolsa Avenue and around the Asian Garden Mall. Those laterals run a heavy continuous fats and oils load that cold-hardens on the pipe wall, and a cable does essentially nothing against it. Hot high-volume jetting lifts the deposit; grease interceptor capacity is usually the underlying question.

We camera residential and commercial lines alike before quoting, and for food premises we leave a dated service record for your fats, oils and grease inspection.