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For sewer line repair in Herndon, a sewer line dug up and replaced is $7,500 to $9,000. Call SwiftPro, rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews, at (703) 997-9757, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Price range
$7,500-$9,000
8yrs @ 7.99%
$106/mo
15yrs @ 9.99%
$81/mo
Monthly figures on the starting price, the whole price financed, on approved credit. The lender sets the final terms. How financing works
We install in Herndon under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276, and SwiftPro is rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews. We cover sewer and water line replacement in Herndon, Town or county side: where the Town’s water line ends at the meter, who pulls which permit, and the camera first. A water service line from the meter to the house is $3,500 to $8,000. A camera down the line, added to a visit we’re already on, is $89; on its own it’s $500 to $1,700.
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An excavated trench in a Northern Virginia yard, the buried service pipes open for the repair.
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What it costs
From the same price book as our plumbing price list: the dig, the new pipe, the connections at both ends, the permit and putting the yard back.
Sewer line replacement, dug up
$7,500 to $9,000
or $125/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Water service line replacement
$3,500 to $8,000
or $58/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Sewer camera inspection, added to a visit
$89
Sewer camera inspection on its own
$500 to $1,700
Monthly figures: 60mo @ 0% APR on each starting price, the whole price financed, on approved credit. Longer plans lower the payment and cost more in total. The lender sets the final terms. How financing works
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Where you land in the range is mostly depth and length: how far the house sits from the main, how deep the line runs, and whether it crosses a driveway, a walk or a big tree’s roots.
Lining the old pipe instead of digging is quoted off the footage once the camera has been through it, so there’s no lining number on this page. When a line can be lined, we price both and you pick.
What’s different in Herndon
Town Code is blunt about it. Herndon looks after the waterworks inside a public right-of-way or Town easement, and never anything past the outlet side of the meter. If your meter sits out at the street, the line from there to your house is yours. If it sits back on your lot, outside the right-of-way, the owner has the service line out beyond the right-of-way line too, while the Town keeps just the meter. So the first thing we do on a Herndon water line is find the meter and the right-of-way line.
The Code has one more trick. Where the Town suspects a leak past the right-of-way, it can set its own meter at the edge and bill you the difference between the two. If your bill has been climbing and the Town mentioned a monitoring meter, that is the pipe we are talking about, and a camera can’t help on a pressure line, so we trace it and dig only where the leak is.
Most of the town went up in the 1970s and 80s, a third of it in the 70s, so the water line is more often copper than iron, and the question is the joints and the fittings. The Town’s 2024 inventory found no lead service lines. The sewer side is the split lateral you may have read about: yours out to the right-of-way, the Town’s from there to the main. A line replacement that crosses that line is two repairs, and we sort out which parts are whose before the trench is marked.
Permits come from the Town’s own Building Inspections office, with a separate plumbing permit, inside the town limits. On the county side, in Floris, Franklin Farm, McNair and Dranesville, it is Fairfax County instead: you own the whole lateral to the county main, and a trench under Centreville Road, Dranesville Road or another state road adds a VDOT permit. The townhouse streets and the McNair condo buildings share lines, so check with the association first.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
Census figures for the owner-occupied homes in each place, and what the buried pipe usually is in houses like them.
| Place | Median home built | Most homes are | Heated with | What’s usually in the ground |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Farm | 1985 | single-family houses, about 9 in 10 | electricity, about 5 in 10 | PVC sewer; a sag or a shifted joint. |
| Herndon | 1981 | single-family houses, about 4 in 10 | electricity, about 6 in 10 | PVC sewer; a sag or a shifted joint. |
| Dranesville | 1984 | single-family houses, nearly all | electricity, about 6 in 10 | PVC sewer; a sag or a shifted joint. |
| McNair | 2003 | condo and apartment buildings, about 6 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Young PVC; usually a blockage, not the pipe. |
| Floris | 1990 | single-family houses, about 8 in 10 | gas, about 6 in 10 | PVC sewer; a sag or a shifted joint. |
| Hutchison | 1979 | townhouses, about 5 in 10 | electricity, about 7 in 10 | Clay or cast iron sewer, copper water line. |
| Sully Square | 2015 | condo and apartment buildings, about 6 in 10 | gas, about 6 in 10 | Young PVC; usually a blockage, not the pipe. |
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
Inside the town limits. Floris, Franklin Farm, McNair and Dranesville, on the Fairfax County side, are counted by the Census as places of their own.
When it’s time
A water bill that climbs with no drip inside the house points at the line between the meter and the house. In Herndon that is a repair the owner pays for, so it is worth finding before the next quarterly bill.
If the main line has been cleared twice in a year and backs up again, the pipe itself is usually the trouble: a sag, a break or roots coming through a joint. Clearing it again buys time, not a fix.
A soft, green strip between the house and the street in dry weather, or a water bill that jumps with no leak inside, often means the water service line is leaking underground.
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Choosing who replaces it
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you a line replacement, us included.
In the town the right-of-way line decides who owns what, on both sewer and water. If a bid didn’t mention it, nobody has walked your yard.
A line replacement quoted without a camera is a guess at what’s down there. Ask to see the break, the sag or the roots, and where on the line they sit.
Some lines can be lined in place, some can’t. The installer who quotes only one way, without saying why the other won’t work, is the one to question.
Two of our crew going over a work order before the day's calls.
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Plumbing system test and maintenance, including snaking the sewer line As a follow up, Tyson came out to check the system and gave us some good preventive maintenance tips.
Questions
You do, from the meter to the house, and out past it to the right-of-way if the meter sits outside it. The Town keeps the meter itself. That is the reading of Town Code 74-308, and the Town’s public works office can tell you where your line crosses.
For a house, duplex or townhouse in the town, the Town takes structural failures from the right-of-way line to its main, funded by a small quarterly charge on the sewer bill. Condos own the whole lateral, and the county side owns it all.
Dug up and replaced, $7,500 to $9,000, with the permit and putting the yard back in that number. A water service line from the meter to the house is $3,500 to $8,000. Where you land depends on depth, length and what sits on top of the line.
Yes. The camera shows whether it’s one bad joint we can repair, a run we can line, or a pipe that has to come out. Added to a visit we’re already on it’s $89.
Ready when you are
Call, or send the form at the top. We run a camera, show you the footage and where the trouble is, and you get the price in writing before anyone digs.
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SwiftPro Heating, Cooling & Plumbing is a licensed, BBB Accredited (A rating), independently owned heating, cooling and plumbing company in Chantilly, serving Herndon and the rest of Northern Virginia. Virginia contractor license #2705192276. 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews on Google, Angi, Yelp, the BBB and Facebook. SwiftPro maintains a dedicated HVAC team and a dedicated plumbing team.
From SwiftPro Heating, Cooling & Plumbing in Chantilly. Housing figures are the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, 2020 to 2024, for each place named; permit, water and sewer facts link to each office’s own page and were checked in September and October 2026.