A length that keeps generating callouts
Clearing it again is the cheapest thing to do today and the most expensive over five years. A camera survey settles whether it is debris or a defect.
Serving Ohio since 1960
Open 24 hours, 7 days
Our own fleet and crews
Scheduled cycles or callouts
What We Do for Municipalities
We have handled municipal and institutional scopes across northwest Ohio since 1960, including work for a federal research facility and a regional university.
Sanitary Sewer Cleaning
Scheduled cycles or reactive callouts across a collection system.
Learn more →Storm Sewer Cleaning
Structures and lines cleared before the weather tests them.
Learn more →Wet Wells & Lift Stations
Pump-outs and cleaning that take the load off the pumps.
Learn more →Treatment Plant Cleaning
Basin, digester and process tank cleaning, with the waste hauled away.
Learn more →Catch Basin Cleaning
Clearing the sump before grit reaches the storm system it was meant to protect.
Learn more →Smoke Testing
Finds breaks, illegal connections and the points where stormwater is getting in.
Learn more →TV Sewer Inspection
A camera down the line shows the condition of the pipe before anyone digs.
Learn more →Jet-Vac & Vactor Service
Combination jetting and vacuum recovery, so debris leaves site rather than moving downstream.
Learn more →Hydro-Excavation
Water and vacuum open the ground, so what is buried in it stays intact.
Learn more →What Villages and Townships Usually Call About
Municipal work is rarely a clean specification the first time it comes up. It starts as a length that keeps causing trouble, or a structure nobody has a record of. These are the usual ones.
Basements backing up after heavy rain
That is usually inflow rather than blockage. Smoke testing finds where stormwater is entering a sanitary system that was never sized for it.
A lift station working harder than it should
Rags, grease and grit in the wet well make the pumps do the work. Cleaning the well takes that load back off them.
Plant basins or tanks due for emptying
Basin, digester and process tank work, with the material hauled away rather than left for the plant to deal with.
Structures nobody has a record of
Plenty of systems have basins and manholes that have not been opened in years. Cleaning them is also how the inventory gets built.
Ground to open in a right of way
Hydrovac excavation exposes buried services without a cutting edge working blind against them, which matters where the records are old.
Working With Small Departments
Most of the villages and townships we work for run public works with a handful of people who also plow the roads and maintain the parks. That shapes what is actually useful from a contractor.
- We turn up loaded. The equipment is ours, so a job does not wait on a rental yard or a subcontractor.
- We do not need somebody standing with us all day. Point the crew at the work and get on with yours.
- You hear what we found. Anything the crew sees that needs a decision comes back to you, rather than surfacing at the next callout.
- One contractor across the system. Collection, storm, plant, lift stations and the disposal that follows, on one contract instead of five.
Budgets, Bids and Scheduling
Municipal work runs on a calendar that is not ours. Budgets get set, work gets released, and a scope discussed in March may not start until August. That is normal and we plan around it.
Send the scope whenever it exists, including before it is funded, and we will price it so the number is in front of you when the decision gets made. If you keep a bid list or a list of approved contractors, tell us and we will get the paperwork to you.
Planned Maintenance Beats Emergencies
Reactive work costs more than the same work scheduled, and it lands in whichever budget year it happens to fall in. A cycle turns an unpredictable line item into a predictable one.
It also builds a record. After a couple of cycles you know which lengths need attention every year, which need it every third year, and which have never needed it at all. That is what a capital plan gets built from, and most systems do not have it until somebody starts collecting it.
Talk to Somebody Who Knows the Work
Open 24 hours, 7 days, across 23 Ohio counties.