Camera inspection
A camera is fed down the line to show roots, cracks, offsets and sags. The recording tells us what is wrong, where it is and how much of the pipe is affected.
Sewer Line Repair in Chula Vista
Every drain in the house empties through the sewer line out to the public sewer. A cracked, root-filled or collapsed pipe makes drains back up. We look inside with a camera, then clear, repair or replace as the pipe requires.
Chula Vista splits the line in two on its utility permit list: the lateral from the main to the property line, and the building sewer from the property line to the house.
Sewer line options
Clearing roots
Once a root finds a gap at a joint or crack, it keeps growing inside the line until nothing gets through. We cut the mass out with a cutting head, then run the camera again to see what condition the pipe is in.
Repairing one section
Damage that stays in one stretch of pipe can be fixed in that stretch alone, with no need to dig up the whole line.
Replacing the lateral
A full replacement makes sense once the camera shows a cracked or collapsed line along much of its length. New pipe then runs the whole way from the house to where the line meets the public sewer.
Chula Vista’s lateral rules
The City requires a utility permit to install, repair, replace or relocate the sewer lateral from the main to the property line or the building sewer from the property line to the house. Council Policy 570-01 puts maintenance of the lateral from the public sewer connection to the building on the owner.
Stoppages found in the public sewer, at the connection or from a street tree go to the City within 48 hours of the location being identified.
House age and the sewer line
In Chula Vista half the homes were built in or before 1986, and 15.9 percent before 1960. Use the sewer line age checker with the year your house went up to see which pipe materials were common then.
Clearing a blockage that has no damage behind it is on the drain cleaning page, and new supply lines are under repiping. The homepage shows the whole range.
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