What’s under
your street.
Clay or PVC, sewer or septic, flood silt or mine subsidence. Each suburb below has a guide to its housing and the drain faults that turn up there.
Redbank Plains.
Where this site is run from, and a suburb of two halves. The 1970s and 1980s streets have drains near the end of their life. The newer estates sit on shared stormwater easements.
Drains in Redbank PlainsSomewhere else? Find your suburb below or name it in your enquiry.
Redbank Plains & surrounds
Where this site is run from. Along Redbank Plains Road and the Ipswich Motorway, 1980s clay drains sit a street from new-estate easements.
Greater Springfield
Master-planned suburbs south-east of Redbank Plains, where the first homes are now due for their first replacements.
Bundamba & the eastern corridor
Older suburbs along the railway and Bundamba Creek, with some of the city’s oldest earthenware drains. The creek has flooded them twice.
Ipswich Central & inner suburbs
Heritage streets and character homes around the Bremer, with century-old drains under mature street trees.
Brassall, Karalee & the north-west
North of the Bremer and along the Brisbane River: post-war streets on town sewer, then acreage on tanks and septic systems.
Ripley Valley & the south
One of Queensland’s fastest-growing corridors. Almost every drain question here concerns a home built in the last fifteen years.
Rosewood & the rural west
Historic townships and rural-residential blocks towards the Scenic Rim. Most properties manage their own water and wastewater.
Suburb boundaries follow the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021 Suburbs and Localities. Housing figures on each suburb page are from the ABS 2021 Census. Every suburb also has a water quality page: where the tap water comes from, how hard it is and how the local creek rates.
Found your suburb?
Tell us what it’s doing.
Send the symptom, your street and when it started. A licensed local plumber will tell you the likely cause and what it takes to confirm it.