Plumber Oldbury

Oldbury WA 6121, Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale. About 38 km south-east of the Perth CBD.

Oldbury is a rural district in the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale roughly thirty-eight kilometres south-east of the Perth CBD, west of the South Western Highway near Byford and Mundijong. It sits on the Pinjarra Plain, was settled under a group settlement scheme in the 1920s, and still carries dairy and rural land uses. For a plumber that means unsewered blocks on septic, bores and tanks for supply, and flat ground where a century-old artificial drainage network still decides where water goes.

• Flat ground and an old drainage networkThe Pinjarra Plain has very little natural fall, which is why the district was drained artificially when it was settled. Stormwater and leach drainage on an Oldbury block have to work with that network rather than against it, and a soak well alone often is not the answer.
• Winter water table on the plainThe ground here holds water through winter, so a leach drain or a soak well that copes in summer can be saturated in July. Septic systems on these blocks need sizing and servicing for the wet season, not the dry one.
• Dairy and rural enterprisesWorking rural properties here generate wash-down and waste that a domestic septic system was never built for. That plumbing wants designing properly, because a failure on a working property is a compliance issue as well as a nuisance.
• Bores, tanks and long service runsWater comes from a bore or tanks, so pumps, pressure vessels and filtration are the components that fail. The runs between the supply and the house are long, and a leak in one shows up a long way from where it actually is.