Blocked Drain Loganholme

If a drain, pit or fixture has backed up at your Loganholme home or rental, Jim Monger Plumbing and Gas clears blocked drains with a jet rodder and electric eel, and offers CCTV drain camera inspections. Homeowners, landlords and property managers can start by noting whether the trouble is in the yard or indoors, and whether a yard pit stays full in dry weather. In the area between the motorway and Bryants Road, Council’s 2013 plan records backwater risk when the Logan River floods, so also note whether the river is up. Elsewhere in Loganholme, Council’s free Logan Flood Portal lets you look up your own address. Then ring us with what you found.

This page works from Council’s 2013 neighbourhood plan for the area between the motorway and Bryants Road, and from State flood and geology mapping, which describe the land and not your pipe. Use them to decide what to check, then ask about a CCTV camera inspection, which may help show what is going on in the line.

Council’s 2013 neighbourhood plan covers about 112 hectares between the Pacific Motorway and Bryants Road, and puts that land at risk from Logan River backwater and local catchment drainage. If a yard pit in that area fills only while the river is high, our reasoning is that the water may have nowhere to go, so clearing may achieve little until levels fall, and BoM says peaks on the lower Logan can take several days to pass. Our own pointer, not Council’s, is that a pit there still full in dry weather may point away from river water, but pits hold water for other reasons too, so a plumber needs to assess it on site.

State mapping of the April 2017 flood, not ground verified, covers about 40% of Loganholme but only about 6% of land mapped as urban residential, so river water is a weak first guess on most of its suburban streets. Rural residential land with agriculture sat about 82% inside that line, so a larger lot on low ground has more reason to look up its address in Council’s free Logan Flood Portal, while on a suburban block we would check the pit and grate first. The 2022 flood peaked higher on the lower Logan, so that 2017 map is a starting point, not a limit.

For the area between the motorway and Bryants Road, the same plan names three stormwater catchments: Atlantic Drive, the largest at about 335 hectares; Torres Street, 24 hectares carried overland along a natural gully; and Osborne Court, about 86 hectares, taken below Bryants Road in a concrete-lined open channel. A catchment name is not a street address, so which one takes your street may need checking. Our own general pointer for the Torres Street side, not Council’s: if your block has an overland path, check it for soil, mulch or fencing before suspecting a pipe. On the Atlantic Drive side, water at your boundary may have come from well up the catchment. Anywhere in Loganholme, Council’s citywide rule is that your roof water and stormwater should drain to kerb and channel, an inter-allotment roof water pipe, or a Council-controlled easement or reserve, so find which one your line heads for.

The plan describes the land below Bryants Road as relatively flat, so check which way your yard falls before blaming the drain for a wet patch.

Across the whole boundary, State mapping shows about 29% stranded river terrace, about 8% swampy mud and peat, and about 9% siltstone and shale, so no single local explanation fits every drain, and an inspection may help show what is happening in yours.