Onondaga County
Drain and Sewer Cleaning in the Town and Village of Manlius
In Manlius, a downspout or a sump pump discharging into the sanitary sewer is a compliance matter, and it is far better found by you than by an inspector. The county is under a state Order on Consent to investigate and reduce inflow and infiltration in the Bishop Brook basin, and a camera crew has been working the trunk sewer since January 2026.
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Thirteen Manlius flood areas the town has already written down
WEP states that its right-of-way maintenance and condition assessment work along the Bishop Brook Trunk Sewer supports compliance with an Order on Consent between Onondaga County and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation which requires investigation and reduction of inflow and infiltration sources. Clearing along the county's 25 foot wide right-of-way ran from January 12 to the end of March 2026, and a closed-circuit television crew is inspecting manholes and sewer lines for condition and signs of inflow and infiltration.
Source: Onondaga County Department of Water Environment Protection, accessed 2026-09-08
The Town of Manlius annex to the 2025 county hazard mitigation plan names thirteen areas vulnerable to recurring flooding: Cranebrook, Bishops Brook, Falcon View, Sugarland, South Eagle Village, North Eagle Village, Duguid Road, Hoag Lane and Muirfield, Long Meadow Subdivision, Troop K and Route 173, Maricarol Lane, Macclenthen Road and the 100 block of the Homewood neighborhood. The Village of Manlius annex separately names Glencliffe Road, Route 173 West, Tyler Court and Brookhill Drive north and south.
Source: Onondaga County 2025 Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan, accessed 2026-09-08
The Meadowbrook-Limestone Wastewater Treatment Plant, completed in 1973 at 7530 Manlius Center Road, serves sections of DeWitt, Manlius, Pompey and Syracuse. It was built after a 1963 state-funded study classified pollution in Limestone Creek as critical and the county established a new sewer district at Meadow Brook on Butternut Creek. WEP's sewer consolidation program currently has a Meadowbrook-Limestone inflow and infiltration abatement project in progress, lining sewers and replacing and rehabilitating manholes across the plant's service area to reduce excessive wet weather flows.
Source: Onondaga County Department of Water Environment Protection, accessed 2026-09-08
Median year of construction across the places of this metro: East Syracuse village 1938, Liverpool village 1938, Skaneateles village 1938, Solvay village 1947, Syracuse city 1948, Marcellus village 1952, Mattydale 1953, Lyncourt 1954, Galeville 1956, Westvale 1956, Camillus village 1958, North Syracuse village 1959, Fairmount 1961, Fayetteville village 1961, DeWitt hamlet 1964, Lakeland 1967, Manlius village 1968, Minoa village 1971, Baldwinsville village 1975, Village Green 1977 and Radisson 1990.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, 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
A sump line into the sanitary sewer is a compliance problem
Tell us how your sump and downspouts discharge and we will say whether it needs correcting.
Why an inspector may look at a Manlius downspout
Manlius is the one place in this metro where keeping rainwater out of the sanitary sewer is backed by a state order. Water Environment Protection states that its right-of-way maintenance and condition assessment along the Bishop Brook Trunk Sewer supports compliance with an Order on Consent between the county and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation requiring the investigation and reduction of inflow and infiltration sources, and a closed-circuit television crew is inspecting manholes and sewer lines for condition and for signs of inflow after clearing the county's 25 foot right-of-way from January to the end of March 2026. That is why a downspout or sump discharge on the sanitary side is a compliance question here rather than an oversight. The town and the village are separate governments and their flood records read differently. The Town annex names thirteen areas vulnerable to recurring flooding, among them Cranebrook, Bishops Brook, Falcon View, Sugarland, South and North Eagle Village, Duguid Road, Hoag Lane and Muirfield, Long Meadow Subdivision, Troop K at Route 173, Maricarol Lane, Macclenthen Road and the 100 block of Homewood, while the Village annex separately names Glencliffe Road, Route 173 West, Tyler Court and Brookhill Drive. Check that list before treating a Manlius basement as a drain fault. Both drain to the Meadowbrook-Limestone plant, which the county is relining to cut wet weather flows, so where the lining has reached a street the wet weather picture should already be improving. On the houses, the median village home dates to 1968, which is late enough for the lateral to be plastic and early enough that it may not be, so the material is worth establishing rather than assuming. And village code puts every cost of installing and connecting the building sewer on the owner, with an indemnity clause attached to it.
Drain and lateral work we arrange in town and 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 Manlius →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 Manlius →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 Manlius →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 Manlius →Tell us what the drains are doing in Manlius
Send your ZIP code and what you are seeing. There is no obligation, and if this is a clean rather than a repair we will say so.