For plumbers, drainers and gasfitters across the Southern Highlands, from Hill Top and Colo Vale down through Bowral and Moss Vale to Bundanoon. Wingecarribee Shire Council looks after the pipes up to your customer's meter and boundary and books its own plumbing inspections, so a site that shows you know where that line sits, and what a hard frost does to an exposed meter, saves a lot of explaining on the phone.
Calls come from an owner with dry taps on a frosty morning, a buyer in Burradoo who wants the drains looked at, a builder in Moss Vale waiting on a final inspection, and a nursery or winery told its backflow device is due. Each of them should see their own job named before they reach for the phone.
Council's winter advice is to cover meters and exposed pipes before icy weather, and it singles out older meters left uncovered as the most likely to be damaged. It says the first sign of a frozen meter is often no water at the taps in the morning, and that after a burst the owner should shut the stop tap at the meter and call a licensed plumber. A winter panel at the top of your home page, with your after-hours number, meets people at exactly that moment.
Council maintains the water network up to and including the meter; everything after it is the owner's. On the sewer side, owners are responsible for the pipes inside their boundary up to the connection with council's main, and council asks them to find the boundary riser before ringing a licensed plumber. A short note on your drains section explaining that saves you from jobs that turn out to be council's.
Council's rules put the overflow relief gully opening at least 75 mm above the ground and at least 150 mm below internal floors, and they warn that landscaping can bury or damage it. Damaged or low-lying gullies must be fixed by a licensed plumber. If you raise or replace gullies after a garden makeover, list it as a service in its own right, with a before and after photo.
Once a device is installed, commissioned and tested, it has to go on council's Backflow Prevention Register within 5 working days, and it's tested every year by a backflow-accredited plumber. The plumber can lodge the form, but the owner carries the responsibility, and council posts reminder letters when a test falls due. If you're accredited, say you'll lodge the registration and the yearly results, and write the section for the commercial, industrial and farm properties council names.
Council's suggested test is to switch off every tap and appliance, read the meter including the red numbers, and check it again after a night without using water. If it has moved, there may be a leak, and leaks on the owner's side are for a licensed plumber to find and fix. A leak detection section that repeats the test, then offers to find what's under the driveway or in a wall, picks up those owners.
Council won't book an inspection until it has the documents by email. For a house or shed that means a site plan, a water and sewer floor plan, a stormwater plan showing tanks and the discharge point, on-site detention calculations where they apply, and owner's consent; then a Notice of Works before work starts, and the certificate of compliance and sewer service diagram before the final. A builders' section saying you prepare and send all of it tells a site supervisor you won't hold up the job.
Council maintains pressure sewer units only inside its designated schemes; anywhere else, the pump, tank and controls are the owner's to look after. If you service or replace pressure sewer pumps, say so, and name the areas you've worked in, because those owners have nobody else to call when the alarm sounds.
Licensing is the same across NSW: a licence for plumbing, draining or gasfitting work of any value, a contractor licence to contract for it, and Fair Trading guidance asking ads, websites included, for the licensee's name, licence number, category of work and a business phone. Our Sydney plumbers page explains those rules. What's unusual here is where the shire sits on the NSW Government's list of local plumbing regulators: in the same table as Sydney and Wollongong, with Building Commission NSW inspecting wherever Sydney Water provides the service and Wingecarribee Council inspecting wherever it doesn't. In the towns council supplies, that means council's MyInspect team.
Booking works by phone. Plumbers and builders register on council's booking site first, then ring to book, and council asks for bookings by 3pm on weekdays; same-day or next-day inspections can't be promised. For applications lodged through the NSW Planning Portal on or after 1 October 2025, the inspection charges are paid at lodgement, while older applications pay for each inspection when it's booked, along with any re-inspection. Bigger jobs, such as units or commercial buildings, also need hydraulic plans and a design certificate covering stormwater, sanitary drainage, water and fire services.
Sewer work is the busy part of the local story. Bowral's sewage treatment plant has had a $56 million upgrade: construction began in June 2023, and the NSW Minister for Water announced in July 2026 that the plant was commissioned, with 50 per cent more capacity and room for up to 7,000 more residents. Council paid $49.4 million of that and the NSW Government $6.6 million. Out in the streets, council spent January to July 2026 upgrading and renewing selected sewer mains in Moss Vale and Bowral, starting with high-pressure jet cleaning and CCTV and then relining pipes without digging wherever it could, and residents were asked to keep toilet lids shut, with a small weight on top, while their section was cleaned. Owners who watched that happen now know the word relining, so if you camera and reline private lines, say so.
Water restrictions haven't been needed since 1 March 2020, when record rain ended the last round, though council keeps its water-wise measures going all year. Off the sewer, the shire has thousands of on-site sewage systems, and the shire sits inside the Sydney drinking water catchment, and our Bowral and Mittagong tradies page covers the approvals and catchment rules behind that work. For gasfitters, Jemena lists the Southern Highlands among the regional areas its gas network supplies.
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In a few lines, yes. Council looks after the water network up to and including the meter and the sewer up to its main, and asks owners to find the boundary riser before ringing a plumber. A short panel saying that, with council's 24-hour number for faults on its side, shows you'll be straight with people about what they're paying for.
If you take after-hours calls, yes. Council's own advice is that a frozen meter usually shows up as dry taps in the morning, and a burst means shutting the stop tap and calling a licensed plumber. We can lead the home page with burst pipes from late autumn and switch it back in spring; text changes on existing pages are part of the $30 monthly hosting.
One section for builders is plenty. Say that you send the plans and owner's consent before booking, lodge the Notice of Works, and supply the certificate of compliance and sewer service diagram before the final. Homeowners don't need the detail; builders want to know you won't be the reason an inspection slips a day.
If you reline private pipes, yes. Council's 2026 program covered selected council mains in Bowral and Moss Vale, and the owner's pipes inside the boundary remain the owner's. A section with photos of a CCTV inspection and a finished reline, and a line that you'll show the footage before quoting, suits owners who have just seen the process in their street.
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Tell us where you're based, the towns and villages you cover and whether burst pipes, backflow, builder work or relining keep you busiest. We'll quote first, build the draft, and you pay nothing until you've approved it.
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