Local drains
From beach shacks to suburb
Mullaloo's coast was beach shacks before it was a suburb. In 1939 Tom Simpson gave three hectares of land here to the Wanneroo Road Board and leased the coastal section for shacks. Urban development began in the late 1950s, and Tom Simpson Park got its car park and lawn from 1974.
That history means some Mullaloo blocks have had drains in the ground for more than sixty years. Council guidance on tree root damage says it typically starts in old-style earthenware clay pipe, at faulty joints and cracks. When we find that on camera, we can clear the roots and reline the pipe so they can't get back in.

