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Sewer Line Repair in New Orleans, LA

The run from a building in New Orleans out to the public main is the property owner’s responsibility, and in housing of this age it is the one material that cannot be ruled out by a date. There are 173,684 occupied homes here, and across all the housing the median build year is 1958 — the best single clue to what the pipe is made of and how it tends to fail.

In short

Two materials are in play beneath a typical New Orleans property, whose housing dates from about 1958: clay, and the bituminized fiber laid next to it. The two fail in quite different ways, and a camera survey is what separates them.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25035.

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Broken section of an old buried pipe exposed in excavated soil, its open end and a loose fragment beside it

What went in the ground around 1958

A lateral laid in New Orleans in that period is most likely the start of the Orangeburg years. Bituminized fiber went in alongside clay, and it does not crack — it slowly loses its round section. More on Orangeburg pipe.

What a camera survey should settle here

The first thing to settle is whether the pipe still has a round section, because bituminized fiber loses its shape rather than cracking. The full picture on Orangeburg pipe.

New Orleans is the 1st largest block of laterals we cover in Louisiana, carrying about 29% of the 607,776 homes on our LA list, and its housing runs older than 99% of the LA towns we route. Age concentration matters on a lateral: where a whole street went in one season, the failures arrive in one season too.

51% of homes here are owner-occupied — 12 points below the LA figure. That matters more on a lateral than on almost any other pipe in the house: the run from the building to the main is the property owner’s to repair, and a landlord and a resident owner do not find that out at the same speed.

Median household income across New Orleans ZIP codes is $52,196 — which matters because a lateral is one of the few repairs with nobody else to send the invoice to.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2023 release — tables B25003 (occupied units), B25035 (all units) and B19013 (households). How these are aggregated.

Before anyone digs in New Orleans, get the run on camera — and ask specifically whether the pipe still has a round section, not just whether it is clear. What the recording should show you.

Build era by ZIP code in New Orleans

ZIPTypical build yearLikely material
701121944clay
701131945clay
701141966Orangeburg
701151939 or earlierclay
701161939 or earlierclay
701171949Orangeburg
701181939 or earlierclay
701191942clay
701211958Orangeburg
701221959Orangeburg
701231977Orangeburg
701241972Orangeburg
701251949Orangeburg
701261974Orangeburg
701271976Orangeburg
701281982cast iron
701291979Orangeburg
701301939 or earlierclay
701311975Orangeburg
701482006plastic

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ZIP codes we route in New Orleans

Sewer line repair near me in New Orleans

Tell us your New Orleans ZIP code and what the drain is doing. If a previous visit cleared it and it returned within months, say so. Other work is handled when you call.

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