Drain Cleaning
Kitchen lines in Grandville's postwar houses often run through cast iron or galvanized pipe narrowed by grease and scale. We clear the clog and check the pipe.
Learn moreGRANDVILLE HOMES AND SEWERS
Why Grandville Sewer Lines
Back Up and Break
Grandville is a mostly built-out Kent County suburb where about 45 percent of homes were built between 1940 and 1979, according to Census Bureau American Community Survey data for 2020 to 2024. The Census Bureau estimates 17,018 residents as of July 1, 2025, and the city’s 2023 Master Plan calls Grandville largely built-out.
Across our Grand Rapids branch service area, many neighborhoods built from the 1940s through the early 1970s still drain through Orangeburg, a sewer pipe made of wood fiber and coal tar that softens and flattens with age. More of Grandville’s current homes date from the 1980s than from any other decade, about one in five. A camera inspection shows which kind of lateral you have before we suggest cleaning, repair or replacement, trenchless where the pipe allows.
Water defines the map here. The Master Plan puts the city on the south bank of the Grand River, with Buck Creek running north through the central residential neighborhoods and floodplains along the river, Buck Creek and Rush Creek. Near those corridors we watch for groundwater seeping into old joints.
Two rules in Grandville’s sewer use ordinance matter in a basement:
- Roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains and other groundwater sources may not connect to a building sewer that feeds the public sanitary sewer.
- Where a building drain sits too low to flow by gravity to the building sewer, the sewage must be lifted by approved means, usually an ejector pump.
Every Grandville drain ends at the city’s Clean Water Plant in Jenison, which also takes wastewater from Georgetown Township, Hudsonville, Jamestown Township and part of Blendon Township through more than 300 miles of sanitary sewer. The plant history dates the first treatment plant to 1964, near the Grand River between Buck and Rush Creeks, and records a 2012 expansion to 10.0 million gallons per day. If the street main is backing up, call Grandville Public Works. For a blockage in your building sewer, call us.
Tap water comes from Lake Michigan, treated at the City of Wyoming plant. Grandville’s 2025 Water Quality Report lists hardness at 97 parts per million and counts 5,363 of 5,397 service connections as containing neither lead nor galvanized pipe.
Clog Busters was founded in 2020 by owner Jarod Smith. Grandville is served from our Grand Rapids branch, which also covers Wyoming, Walker, Kentwood, Byron Center and nearby towns. Schedule drain or sewer service in Grandville.
