Plumber Canning Vale

Canning Vale WA 6155, City of Canning. About 22 km south-east of the Perth CBD.

Canning Vale sits about twenty-two kilometres south-east of the Perth CBD, split between the City of Canning west of Nicholson Road and the City of Gosnells east of it. It was swampy market garden and dairy country with abundant permanent fresh water until rezoning opened it for housing in 1994, and it now holds large residential estates alongside a major industrial area. For a plumber that means a high water table, old farm services under new lots, and commercial trade waste work.

• Swampy ground under the estatesThe permanent fresh water that made this market garden country has not gone anywhere. Groundwater sits closer to the surface in Canning Vale than in the sandy suburbs west of it, so soak wells fill faster and clear more slowly through winter.
• Market garden bores under new lotsDairy farms and market gardens covered this land until the late 1970s, and their bores, troughs and irrigation mains were not always removed before subdivision. Locating services before excavation is far cheaper than finding one with a machine.
• A major industrial areaThe industrial estate here generates wash-down and oily waste that cannot discharge straight to sewer. Arrestors need sizing for the real throughput and cleaning on a schedule, or a blockage arrives on the busiest possible day.
• Two councils across one suburbCanning Vale is split at Nicholson Road between the City of Canning and the City of Gosnells, so anything needing an approval or a new connection goes to a different authority depending on the address. We confirm which applies before starting.