Onondaga County
Drain Cleaning in East Syracuse, Where Storm Sewers Run Out
Knowing whether the water came up your drain or in off the street saves an East Syracuse homeowner the wrong repair. Parts of this village have no storm sewers at all, and the county hazard plan names seven streets that flood consistently because of it.
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Seven East Syracuse streets that flood with no storm sewer to take it
The Village of East Syracuse annex to the 2025 county hazard mitigation plan states that several streets and residential properties flood because of poor drainage and because parts of the Village have no storm sewers at all, and names Hartwell Avenue, East Second Street, West Second Street, East Yates Street, East Manlius Street, East First Street and Manlius Center Road as consistently affected. A separate mitigation action, VES-17, is to replace roughly 300 linear feet of the North Center Street sanitary sewer main between Manlius Street and Ellis Street; it is rated 12 out of 15 and marked high priority.
Source: Onondaga County 2025 Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan, accessed 2026-09-08
Village of East Syracuse Code section 277-5H allows sewer extensions, including individual building sewer laterals to the property line, to be constructed by the Village. Section 277-5C allows old building sewers to be used with new buildings only if the Public Works Superintendent tests them and finds they fully comply. Section 277-5D requires the building sewer to be brought to the building below the basement floor wherever possible, and section 277-5E prohibits any source of surface runoff or groundwater from being connected to a building sewer.
Source: Village of East Syracuse Code Chapter 277, Sewers, accessed 2026-09-08
Share of housing built before 1950 in the cities, villages and census designated places of Onondaga County: East Syracuse village 62.1 percent, Skaneateles village 61.2, Liverpool village 60.4, Solvay village 53.6, Syracuse city 51.4, Marcellus village 48.2, Camillus village 41.5, Lyncourt 39.5, Mattydale 37.2, Westvale 28.1, Fayetteville village 24.6, Baldwinsville village 24.0, North Syracuse village 22.0, Galeville 21.4, Minoa village 20.9, Brewerton 15.5, DeWitt hamlet 14.6, Manlius village 12.5, Fairmount 8.8, Radisson 6.9, Village Green 5.4 and Seneca Knolls 2.2.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, accessed 2026-09-08
WEP's Flood Control division maintains four county drainage districts, mapped to specific municipalities: Harbor Brook and Meadow Brook in the City of Syracuse, Bloody Brook in the Town of Salina and the Village of Liverpool, and Bear Trap and Ley Creek in the towns of DeWitt and Salina, the Village of East Syracuse and the City of Syracuse. Crews mow, trim, remove woody vegetation and debris and inspect infrastructure to keep these waterways unobstructed, and licensed contractors apply herbicide each spring.
Source: Onondaga County Department of Water Environment Protection, accessed 2026-09-08
Village of Fayetteville Code section 133-10 states that all costs and expense incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner, who shall indemnify the Village against loss. Village of North Syracuse Code section 197-12 and Village of East Syracuse Code section 277-5A carry the identical rule word for word.
Source: Village of Fayetteville Code Chapter 133; Village of North Syracuse Code Chapter 197; Village of East Syracuse Code Chapter 277, accessed 2026-09-08
Street water and drain water need different fixes
Tell us where the water appears and when, and we will say which of the two you are dealing with.
Who owns the pipe from an East Syracuse house to the line
East Syracuse is the one village in this metro where the pipe from your house may not be entirely yours. Code section 277-5H allows sewer extensions, including individual building sewer laterals run out to the property line, to be constructed by the Village, so where that happened the split of responsibility sits at the line rather than at the main. Ask the Village which case your address is before agreeing to pay for the whole run. Everything else in the chapter points the other way: section 277-5A puts all costs of installing and connecting the building sewer on the owner, section 277-5C lets an old building sewer serve a new building only if the Public Works Superintendent tests it and finds it fully compliant, and section 277-5E prohibits any source of surface runoff or groundwater being connected to a building sewer. That last one matters more here than almost anywhere. The village annex to the county hazard plan records that several streets and residential properties flood because of poor drainage and because parts of the Village have no storm sewers at all, naming Hartwell Avenue, East Second Street, West Second Street, East Yates Street, East Manlius Street, East First Street and Manlius Center Road. Surface water on a street with nowhere to go finds cellar entrances and cracked laterals instead, and with 62.1 percent of village housing built before 1950, the highest share of any place in the county, the laterals it finds are mortar-jointed clay. The village also sits inside the county's Bear Trap and Ley Creek drainage district, so a blocked channel is reportable to Water Environment Protection rather than something to absorb.
Drain and cellar backup work we arrange in the village
Clogged and Slow Drain Cleaning
Get one slow or blocked fixture running again, and find out whether the fault stops at that fixture or carries on out to the street.
Drain Cleaning in East Syracuse →Sewer Line Cleaning and Root Removal
Clear the one pipe that carries the whole house out to the street, take the roots or the grease out of it, and establish where along that run the blockage actually sat.
Sewer Line Cleaning in East Syracuse →Sewer Backup and Basement Flooding
Get the line open and the house draining again, then establish whether the water came from your own lateral or from the system in the street.
Sewer Backup in East Syracuse →Sewer Line Inspection and Repair
Find out what is actually wrong with the lateral, how far along the run it sits, and whether the answer is a cleaning, a spot repair or a replacement.
Sewer Line Repair in East Syracuse →Tell us what is coming up in your East Syracuse cellar
Send your ZIP code and what you are seeing. There is no obligation, and if this belongs to the Village we will say so.