Plumber Leumeah, NSW 2560
Leumeah is a 1970s-80s suburb squeezed between the Hume Highway and the railway just north of Campbelltown, best known for Campbelltown Sports Stadium beside the station. The housing is brick veneer and Housing Commission on Cumberland Plain clay, with duplexes and townhouse complexes sharing drains near the station, and Bow Bowing Creek running through the low ground. It is a short run from Campbelltown Hospital and the Hume Highway, so it is easy to reach.
What usually goes wrong in Leumeah
- Galvanised pipework in 1970s Housing Commission homes corroding shut and dropping pressure to the kitchen tap
- Shared sewer lines in duplexes and townhouse complexes blocking for several households at once
- Roots from forty-year-old street trees and backyard gums entering cracked earthenware and early PVC joints
- Electric storage hot water units on their second or third replacement leaking from the base
- Stormwater flooding low blocks beside Bow Bowing Creek and the railway in heavy storms
Local notes from the plumbers
Leumeah sits between the Hume Highway and the railway north of Campbelltown, and most of it went in during the 1970s and early 80s as brick veneer and Housing Commission homes on Cumberland Plain clay. The Housing Commission stock is where the galvanised water pipe still turns up, corroded almost shut and delivering rusty water and weak flow, and the earthenware sewers under those yards have moved with the clay until the joints opened and the roots got in. Duplexes and the townhouse complexes near Leumeah station and Campbelltown Sports Stadium share sewer lines, so a single blockage puts several households out at once. Hot water is mostly electric storage tanks outside or in the laundry, many on their second or third replacement, and they leak from the base after a long summer. Bow Bowing Creek runs through the low ground beside the railway, and the streets closest to it collect stormwater and sewer surcharge when the afternoon storms come through. Game nights at the stadium put a strain on the amenities and the food outlets on O'Sullivan Road. The Hume Highway and the M5 make access straightforward.
Housing in Leumeah
1970s-80s brick veneer and Housing Commission homes on quarter-acre and smaller blocks between the Hume Highway and the railway, a cluster of 1980s-90s townhouses and duplexes near Leumeah station and the stadium, and a few older 1960s fibro cottages on the streets closest to Campbelltown.
