Sewer Line Repair in Anthem, Camera First, No Guessing
Recurring backups, gurgling drains, sewage smell without a visible cause. The problem may be underground. The camera goes in the line first, same day on most calls. You see the footage before anybody talks about digging.
Anthem's sewer lines went into the ground in one stretch, between 1999 and 2008, along with the houses over them. EPCOR collects and treats what goes into them.
Why Anthem's Sewer Is One Company From Your Yard to the Plant
Anthem is on sewer, not septic. EPCOR collects and treats the community's wastewater in addition to supplying its water, and EPCOR's own infrastructure list names enclosed water reclamation facilities at Anthem among its Arizona operations. That is a simpler picture than a lot of the north Valley, where an address can sit on a private tank the county keeps the records for. What it does not simplify is the line between your house and the street, which belongs to you. Those laterals went in with the houses, in the stretch between Del Webb's 1999 start and the 2008 completion of initial construction, and the landscaping over them has had the same twenty-odd years to grow; University of Arizona Extension puts 20 feet as the safe distance between a large shade tree and a sewer lateral. Anthem's ground adds one more wrinkle, since NRCS documents caliche and compacted desert-alluvial layers as typical here, which makes any dig on your side of the property line slower than the same dig in soft valley fill.
A camera inspection is how you see the inside of a line that age without digging for it. Worth doing before a backup makes the decision for you.
Wondering what the warning signs of a failing sewer line look like, why we always start with a camera inspection, or whether trenchless repair or a traditional dig fits your property? Our sewer line repair page and trenchless sewer line page cover all of it, and the same answers apply here in Anthem.
Frequently Asked Questions
Anthem is about 33 miles up I-17 from our Phoenix office, call it 35 to 45 minutes depending on the hour. Somebody answers the phone at that distance the same as anywhere else in the Valley, 24 hours a day, usually a real person.
Sewer. EPCOR handles both the water and the wastewater here and operates reclamation facilities at Anthem, so there is no septic tank to locate the way there is on some north Valley acreage. The lateral from your house to the street is still yours, and it went in with the house between 1999 and 2008.