Serving Every Corner of Ouachita Parish with Professional Sewer Services
Across all of these areas, Ouachita Parish shares a common set of sewer line challenges rooted in the region's geology, climate, and housing history. We serve the entire parish with professional sewer line inspection, repair, replacement, and cleaning, responding to locations from the city of Monroe to the most rural Ouachita Parish addresses we are asked to serve.
What Makes Ouachita Parish Sewer Lines Uniquely Challenging
Every part of Ouachita Parish shares several conditions that make sewer line problems more common and more serious here than in many other parts of the country.
Heavy clay soil throughout the parish
Ouachita Parish sits on expansive clay soil that swells significantly when wet and contracts when dry. This seasonal movement puts ongoing stress on every underground pipe joint in the parish, regardless of whether the pipe is in Monroe's urban core or in a rural area of the parish. Over years and decades, this movement causes joint offsets, pipe bellies, and eventually pipe fractures. No sewer line in Ouachita Parish is immune to the effects of the local soil.
Widespread mid-century housing stock
Ouachita Parish has a significant concentration of homes built between World War II and the early 1970s. The sewer laterals in these homes were installed with clay tile, cast iron, or Orangeburg pipe, all of which are now operating well beyond their intended service lives. This is not a problem limited to Monroe's historic neighborhoods. It extends to established communities throughout the parish wherever housing from this era exists.
Year round root growth in a warm climate
Northeast Louisiana's mild winters mean that tree roots continue growing toward underground moisture sources for most or all of the year. Ouachita Parish's tree-rich landscape, from the urban canopy of Monroe and West Monroe to the rural wooded areas of the parish's outer areas, means root intrusion into sewer lines is a parish-wide issue rather than a city-specific one.
Variation in municipal sewer access across the parish
While Monroe and West Monroe are served by municipal sewer systems, many Ouachita Parish properties outside these city limits are on private septic systems. Sewer lateral problems including root intrusion, pipe collapse, and joint failure occur in septic connected systems just as they do in municipal connected ones. Our services apply throughout the parish regardless of whether a property is on municipal sewer or a private septic system.
Communities We Serve Throughout Ouachita Parish
We serve residential and commercial properties throughout Ouachita Parish including the following communities and areas.
If your address is in Ouachita Parish and you have a sewer line problem, call us. We serve the full parish.
Monroe
including all neighborhoods: Garden District, Southside, Lakeshore, University Area, Downtown Monroe, and all zip code areas within the city.
West Monroe
including all residential and commercial areas throughout the city.
Sterlington
and surrounding northern Ouachita Parish areas.
Swartz
and eastern Ouachita Parish residential communities.
Calhoun
and western Ouachita Parish along the Interstate 20 corridor.
Claiborne
and the West Monroe adjacent communities.
Brownsville and Bawcomville
in the southwestern Ouachita Parish area.
Unincorporated Ouachita Parish
rural and semi-rural residential properties throughout the parish.
Ouachita Parish Sewer Permits and Regulations
All sewer line repair and replacement work in Ouachita Parish requires permits and inspections administered through the parish's building and code enforcement offices. Requirements apply to work in both incorporated areas like Monroe and West Monroe and in unincorporated areas of the parish.
We handle all Ouachita Parish permit applications, coordination with inspectors, and permit closeouts on every job we perform throughout the parish. You do not need to deal with the permit office or understand the permitting process. We manage it completely.
Our Full Range of Services Across Ouachita Parish
Sewer camera inspection, trenchless pipe lining, pipe bursting, full sewer line replacement, hydro jetting, drain cleaning, root intrusion removal and repair, and 24 hour emergency sewer repair are all available throughout Ouachita Parish.