Plumbing & Restoration in Canyon Lake, CA

Canyon Lake grew up around a reservoir. Railroad Canyon Dam was finished on the San Jacinto River in 1929, and in 1968 the Corona Land Company began laying out thousands of lots around the lake, creating a private, gated community that became a city in 1990. Homes went up over the following decades, so most of the housing dates from the 1970s onward, many of them on hillside or lakefront lots that slope toward the water.

Houses from the 1970s and 1980s are typically copper, and some built from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s have polybutylene. Original water heaters in homes this age are usually long gone, but original angle stops, toilet supply lines and sewer laterals often aren't. Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District provides water and sewer to most of the community, and the lake itself is one of its drinking water reservoirs, treated at EVMWD's Canyon Lake plant mainly during summer demand. EVMWD has had to rehabilitate sections of aging sewer main here, and the private laterals connecting homes to those mains are often just as old.