Plumber Port Kennedy

Port Kennedy WA 6172, City of Rockingham. About 53 km south of the Perth CBD.

Port Kennedy sits about fifty-three kilometres south of the Perth CBD in the City of Rockingham, built on Becher Point where the wetlands form long linear strips in the dune swales rather than circular basins, with part of them protected in the Port Kennedy Scientific Park. For a plumber that formation is the whole story: groundwater sits high in bands across the suburb, so drainage advice that is right on one street is wrong on the next.

• Wetlands running in strips, not basinsThe dune swale wetlands here lie in long parallel bands, so the water table is high along some lines and low along others. A soak well that works on one Port Kennedy street can be useless two streets away, which is why we assess the block rather than the suburb.
• A scientific park downstreamPart of the wetland system is protected as a threatened ecological community, so what leaves a property here genuinely matters. Stormwater and wash-down need handling properly rather than being directed at the nearest low point.
• Salt air on everything exposedBeing on the coast, external tapware, fittings and hot water units corrode far faster than inland. Where a unit is sited and how it is protected decides whether it reaches its full service life or half of it.
• A golf course over part of the wetlandsThe course here runs irrigation at commercial scale over sensitive ground, so its pumps, mains and backflow prevention need maintaining properly rather than attended to after a failure.