Plumber Edgewater

Edgewater WA 6027, City of Joondalup. About 23 km north of the Perth CBD.

Edgewater lies about twenty-three kilometres north of the Perth CBD in the City of Joondalup. The suburb name was approved in 1974 and refers to its position on the western edge of Lake Joondalup, which is surrounded by Yellagonga Regional Park. The suburb is bounded by the Mitchell Freeway and sits immediately south of the Joondalup city centre.

• Built on the edge of Lake JoondalupThe lake keeps the water table high right across the western side of the suburb. Soak wells here fill faster and clear far more slowly through winter than they would inland, so stormwater and surface drainage has to be sized for saturated ground rather than to a standard detail.
• Properties backing onto Yellagonga Regional ParkThe park wraps around the lake and its mature trees sit close to residential boundaries. Those roots find the joints in older earthenware sewer lines, and the homes backing the reserve are the ones we return to most often to clear blocked drains.
• Winter groundwater rather than undersized wellsOwners here often assume an overflowing soak well is too small when the real problem is the water table rising in winter. Replacing a well with a bigger one in the same spot rarely helps, so we work out which problem it actually is before quoting any drainage work.
• Housing from the mid 1970s onwardEdgewater was approved in 1974 and built out over the following years, putting the original water pipe and earthenware sewer at around fifty years old. They are reaching the end of their life across neighbouring streets at much the same time.