Drain Cleaning
Kitchen sinks, tub drains and basement floor drains in Clive homes clog with grease, hair and wipes. We clear the line to full flow and tell you if the camera shows a pipe problem behind the clog.
Learn moreWALNUT CREEK AND GROWTH
What Clive's History Means
for Its Sewer Lines
Clive is an old settlement and a young city: it was platted beside Walnut Creek in 1882, incorporated on October 9, 1956, and has grown from 752 residents in 1960 to 20,277 in the special census its City Council certified on April 26, 2026. Those figures come from the City of Clive, which also reports 1,200 acres being developed for homes and businesses. The city reaches west across the county line, and the Dallas County city listing includes it.
That spread puts very different pipe under Clive addresses. A house from the city’s first decades may still drain through its original sewer line, with joints that have shifted for well over half a century. A home in a newer subdivision usually has plastic pipe that will not rust, yet it can sag where backfilled soil settled. We camera the line from a cleanout before we price anything, so the footage sets the fix, not the age of the house.
Heavy rain is the second pressure on Clive sewer lines. The City of Clive stormwater program states that all runoff in the city discharges to Walnut Creek and its tributaries, and the City’s flood response protocol cites a National Weather Service record crest of 13.4 feet for Walnut Creek in June 2015, read at the Interstate 35/80 gauge. When the creek runs high and the soil stays soaked, groundwater seeps into cracked or offset joints in a private lateral. The extra water can overload the line and push sewage up the lowest drain in the house, usually the basement floor drain.
After a storm backup we clear the lateral, camera it for the joints letting water in, and lay out repair options, trenchless where the pipe allows. Restaurants and shops along Clive’s commercial corridors get the same camera-first approach, plus scheduled jetting of grease-heavy kitchen lines.
Owner Jarod Smith started Clog Busters in 2020. Iowa put the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code into effect on March 26, 2025, and that is the standard our Clive work meets. See our Clive sewer services, Clive hydro jetting and emergency plumbing in Clive pages, or schedule service in Clive.
