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Palm Beach Gardens

Plumbing in Palm Beach Gardens

The 1960 census counted one resident in Palm Beach Gardens. The city was incorporated on June 20, 1959 on land John D. MacArthur had announced that March, so everything under every slab here went in after that: 6,102 people by 1970, 22,965 by 1990 and 59,182 by 2020, spread across roughly fifty-nine square miles. The decade that built your street is what decides the pipe.

Garden Woods went up in the late 1970s and early 1980s, PGA National built out from about 1980, and Sun Terrace at the Oaks added 480 townhomes between 1990 and 1993 — that whole span is the polybutylene supply window. Evergrene, Alton and Avenir came later, and their calls are fixtures, water heaters and irrigation rather than failing pipe.

Two local facts reroute the job before anyone opens a wall. Water, sewer and reclaimed water come from Seacoast Utility Authority, not from the city. And some of the oldest housing carrying a Palm Beach Gardens mailing address — Cabana Colony, Palm Beach Country Estates — sits outside the city limits entirely, which changes who permits the work and, on the acreage lots, whether there is a sewer to connect to at all.

Neighborhoods we work in

PGA National
BallenIsles
Garden Woods
Sun Terrace at the Oaks
Evergrene
Alton

Local conditions

What is specific to Palm Beach Gardens

A city with one resident in the 1960 census: Palm Beach Gardens was incorporated on June 20, 1959, on land John D. MacArthur announced that March, and the 1960 census recorded a single resident. It reached 6,102 by 1970, 22,965 by 1990 and 59,182 by 2020, across about fifty-nine square miles. Nothing here predates slab-on-grade construction, so the age of the pipe under a given house is set entirely by which growth wave built the street — and this city spans more waves than its neighbors do.
Cabana Colony has a Gardens address and is not in the Gardens: MacArthur platted Cabana Colony in 1960 and it was substantially built out by 1968 — roughly 844 homes, no homeowners association, east of I-95 off Prosperity Farms Road. It is also unincorporated Palm Beach County: the city put annexation to a referendum and the March 2024 vote failed. That matters twice. Housing of that vintage is the local stock most likely to still have cast iron drain-waste-vent under the slab, and permits for an unincorporated parcel are pulled through the county rather than the city building department.
The polybutylene span runs from Garden Woods to Sun Terrace: Garden Woods, north of PGA Boulevard and east of Military Trail, was developed in the late 1970s and finished in the early 1980s with no association attached; PGA National built out from about 1980; Sun Terrace at the Oaks put up 480 townhomes south of RCA Boulevard between 1990 and 1993. All of that falls inside the years polybutylene supply pipe was standard in Florida tract construction. Replacement here usually reroutes overhead through the attic instead of back into the slab, which is why drywall and ceiling work is often the larger half of the job.
BallenIsles is a 1963 golf club behind a much later gate: The property opened in 1963 as PGA National Golf Club, MacArthur's course built in conjunction with the PGA of America. When the ten-year commitment with the PGA ended it became JDM Country Club, and in 1988 the property was sold and renamed BallenIsles, with the housing inside the gate following after. The club is older than the plumbing by a wide margin, so the founding date on the sign is no guide at all to what is under the floor.
Seacoast Utility Authority — condemned from a private owner in 1988: Water, sewer and reclaimed water come from Seacoast Utility Authority, formed in 1988 by Palm Beach Gardens with Palm Beach County, North Palm Beach, Lake Park and Juno Beach. On December 20, 1988 it acquired by eminent domain substantially all the assets of Seacoast Utilities, the private system owned by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, so the oldest mains in the eastern part of the service area were laid by a developer's utility rather than by a municipality. Seacoast handles the meter, the tap and backflow; the city building department handles permitting on your side of the line.
Acreage on the west side: septic tanks and private wells: Palm Beach Country Estates carries Palm Beach Gardens addresses, sits in unincorporated Palm Beach County, has no homeowners association and no lots much under an acre and a quarter. The houses are on onsite septic and a great many draw from private wells. On those properties a backup can be the tank or a saturated drain field rather than the line, and weak pressure can be the pump or the pressure tank rather than the plumbing, so it is worth saying which system you are on when you call.

Services in Palm Beach Gardens

What we are called out for here most

Cast Iron Pipe Replacement Replacing failed cast iron drain lines above and below slab, with the scope proven on camera. Read more

Repiping Replacing failing supply lines — galvanized, polybutylene or pinholing copper — in copper or PEX. Read more

Leak Detection Acoustic, thermal and pressure methods that pinpoint a hidden leak before anything is opened up. Read more

Emergency Plumbing Around-the-clock response for burst pipes, sewage backups, flooding and total loss of water. Read more

Also available in Palm Beach Gardens: Drain Cleaning, Drain Clog Repair, Hydro Jetting, Sewer Line Repair, Trenchless Sewer Repair, Water Heater Repair, Water Heater Replacement, Garbage Disposal Repair, Faucet Repair, Toilet Repair, Sump Pump Repair and Installation, Sewer Camera Inspection, Well Pump Service, Septic System Services, Gas Line Services, Backflow Prevention.

Questions

Palm Beach Gardens questions we get asked

Why does my water bill come from Seacoast Utility Authority instead of the city?

Because the utility is not the city's. Seacoast was created in 1988 by Palm Beach Gardens together with Palm Beach County, North Palm Beach, Lake Park and Juno Beach, and that December it took the private MacArthur-owned system by eminent domain. It supplies potable water, wastewater service and reclaimed water. Meter, tap, backflow and main questions go to Seacoast; permitting for work on your property goes to the city building department, or to the county if the parcel is unincorporated.

Does the age of my street change what is likely to be wrong?

More here than in most cities nearby, because the build years run across six decades. In the 1960s housing on the eastern side, a drain problem is frequently the cast iron itself. Across the late-1970s to early-1990s belt — Garden Woods, PGA National, Sun Terrace at the Oaks — the supply side and polybutylene are the likelier culprits. In Evergrene, Alton and Avenir it is usually a fixture, a water heater or irrigation.

Is Cabana Colony inside the city?

No. MacArthur platted it in 1960 and it was largely built out by 1968, but it remains unincorporated Palm Beach County — a referendum on annexing it into Palm Beach Gardens failed in March 2024. In practice that means county permitting rather than city permitting, and it also means some of the oldest slab housing in the area, which is where cast iron drain lines still turn up.

My address says Palm Beach Gardens but I am on septic. Is that normal?

It usually means the parcel is in one of the unincorporated acreage pockets such as Palm Beach Country Estates, where lots start around an acre and a quarter and homes are on onsite septic, many of them on private wells. A blockage between the house and the tank is plumbing work. A failed tank or a saturated drain field is septic work, which runs on a separate permitting track from ordinary plumbing, and you will be told plainly which one you have.

How can I tell whether a previous owner already repiped the house?

Look for the evidence a repipe leaves behind. New supply runs in the attic, patched and repainted drywall high on walls and in ceiling corners, a manifold near the water heater, and rigid or cross-linked pipe where gray flexible pipe would have been. Permit records held by the city building department — or the county, for an unincorporated parcel — are the other place to check before assuming the original pipe is still in the walls.

My irrigation runs on reclaimed water. Does that change anything?

It adds a second system to keep straight. Seacoast supplies reclaimed water alongside potable water, so irrigation on those streets is fed from its own main and meter, and the one thing that must never happen is a connection between it and the drinking water piping. A leak or a broken head on the reclaimed side is a different call from a break in the house supply, and saying which one is wet helps.

Do you work inside the gated golf communities?

Yes — PGA National, BallenIsles and the rest of that belt are regular territory. Those communities set their own gate access, working hours and restoration standards, so giving the community name to dispatch when you call lets the visit be arranged around them instead of stalling at the gate.

BallenIsles has been there since the 1960s. Is the plumbing that old?

The club is; the houses are not. The course opened in 1963 as PGA National Golf Club, became JDM Country Club once the PGA commitment ended, and was sold and renamed BallenIsles in 1988, with the residential development following. The drain and supply lines under those homes are decades newer than the club's founding date, and they come from the era worth checking for polybutylene rather than for cast iron.

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