Highlands Ranch Water provides water and wastewater service across the community and advises residents to call a plumber first in a sewer emergency to check the private sanitary service line. A sewer camera inspection records that line from the inside and shows roots, sags, separated joints or debris and exactly where they are. Call the number on this page to be connected with a local plumber in Highlands Ranch.
What happens when you call
Calling the number on this page connects you with an independent local plumber who serves Highlands Ranch. Be ready to say which drains are acting up, whether water has come up anywhere, and whether you know where the cleanout is. On site, the plumber opens the line if it is full, runs a camera on a push cable from the cleanout toward the main, and watches the footage live. Each defect gets noted with its distance from the entry point, and a locator lets the plumber mark it on the surface. You end up with a clear picture of what is wrong instead of a guess.
What drives the cost
- The entry point: cleanout versus pulling a toilet
- A backed-up line that must be cleared before filming
- The length of the lateral and how many bends it has
- Locating and marking defects, and saving the video
- Timing, if the visit happens outside normal hours
Highlands Ranch conditions
Highlands Ranch is an unincorporated, master-planned community developed from the 1980s onward, the largest community in Douglas County. Most laterals here are plastic and far younger than those in Denver's older neighborhoods, so a camera is less likely to find crumbling pipe and more likely to find a belly where the trench settled, a joint that pulled apart, construction debris or roots that found a way in where landscaping matured over the line.
Highlands Ranch Water, whose district covers all properties in the Highlands Ranch and Solstice communities, treats wastewater locally at the Marcy Gulch Wastewater Treatment Plant. Its guidance is clear: for a sewer emergency, have a plumber check the private service line first. If the camera shows the line is clear to the main and the problem is beyond your property, the district's 24-hour emergency line is 303-791-2185. Because the community is unincorporated, any repair permit comes from the Douglas County Building Division, and Highlands Ranch Metro District approval is required before the county issues building permits for some projects.
Checklist before the plumber gets there
- Stop using water if any drain is backing up
- Locate the cleanout and clear plants or mulch away from it
- Move belongings away from the lowest drain in the house
- Write down which fixtures are affected and when it started
- Find any paperwork from a past clearing or inspection
Sewer Camera Inspection questions in Highlands Ranch
Who should I call first when sewage backs up?
Can a newer house have sewer line problems?
Do I need a permit if the camera finds a broken line?
Can the plumber show me where the problem is in the yard?
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