Anaheim neighborhoods

A house's age predicts its drain trouble. These notes cover six parts of Anaheim: the pipe you'll likely find there, how the homes sit on their lots, and who to ask at the city before work starts.

Start here Drain notes for Anaheim Hills Anaheim Hills is the city's hillside east end, developed later than the central and western tracts. Its drain problems tend to come from landscaping roots, grease and wipes, and the quirks of sloped lots rather than decades-old clay pipe.

Drain notes for West Anaheim
West Anaheim grew quickly in the postwar decades, and much of it is single-story tract housing on concrete slabs. That era's cast-iron drains and clay laterals, now well over half a century old, shape the drain problems homeowners see today.
Drain notes for the Anaheim Colony Historic District
The Colony is Anaheim's original town site, and its streets hold some of the oldest homes in the city. Older houses here can have very old sewer laterals and, in many cases, raised foundations, which change how drain problems show up and get fixed.
Drain notes for the Platinum Triangle
The Platinum Triangle is a redeveloping district in south-central Anaheim where newer apartments, condos and mixed-use buildings have replaced older industrial land. Drain problems here are less about old pipe and more about shared systems and who is responsible for what.
Drain notes for Anaheim Canyon
Anaheim Canyon is the city's large business and industrial area along the 91 freeway in east Anaheim. Its drain issues center on floor drains, break-room and food-service lines, and any process wastewater a business discharges.
Drain notes for The Anaheim Resort district
The Anaheim Resort is the city's tourism district around the convention center and theme park area. Hotels and restaurants there put heavy, constant loads on drains, and the older residential streets nearby have their own set of aging-pipe issues.