About 42% of their work orders last year were for lateral sewer line repairs, and each repair takes three to five hours, city staff estimated. The October 2023 decision returned the ordinance to ...

Repairing the main sewer pipe and lateral as it runs underground from the house to the street costs between $500 and $2,300. The most expensive sewer line repair occurs when the sewer pipe is ...

Included in the budget is a $1 increase to the base wastewater rate, a portion of which will fund sewer lateral line repairs. But if their line breaks, property owners will have to pay the city a ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - A change could be on the way to an ordinance that affects every property owner in the City of Lubbock. This is an update to our months-long investigation, Ordinance Outrage.

Mario Fernandez. In 2020, a city ordinance went into effect that shifted the responsibility for the portion of the sewer lateral between the city’s main and the property line. The owner of the ...

Work includes cleaning and inspecting sewer lateral service line with a camera scope, disconnecting downspouts and installing extensions at least 3 feet from the foundation, repairing or replacing ...