Finding Your Water Meter on a Sloping Endeavour Hills Block

Start at the front boundary

The meter is almost always at the street frontage, in a concrete or plastic pit, just inside the fence or in the nature strip. On a sloping Endeavour Hills block it may sit on the high side of the drive, beside a low retaining wall, or under a shrub that has grown over the lid. Walk the width of the frontage and look for a square or rectangular lid at ground level. Feel with your foot if the garden has covered it, rather than digging blindly.

How to turn it off

Lift the lid carefully. The tap on the house side of the meter usually turns clockwise to close. Turn it until it stops, then check a tap inside the house. If the handle is seized, the pit is full of water, or you cannot get a firm stance on the slope, do not force it. Call 03 8658 7175 and keep people away from any leak.

Why this matters

Shutting the water off is the single most useful thing you can do in a burst, a split hose or a leaking unit. It protects your house and the downhill neighbour, and it lets the plumber see the pipe properly on arrival. A photo of the open pit, once you have called, helps us know what we are walking into.

The authority generally looks after the meter itself and the main in the street. From the meter toward the house is usually your pipe. We will help you tell which side has failed.

Endeavour Hills pipes at a glance

Endeavour Hills was built through the 1970s and 1980s on rising ground between Dandenong and the Lysterfield hills, postcode 3802, in the City of Casey. A lot of the original brick veneer is still on the block it was built on, often with a steep drive, a sleeper or concrete retaining wall and a stormwater pit at the low corner. Water services may be copper, with patches of later poly, and many sewers are still earthenware with tree roots from street and backyard plantings. Hot water is often a gas storage unit squeezed onto a narrow side path, which is why a replacement sometimes has to come down the front steps.

We use cameras, locators, pressure tests and acoustic leak detection so we can see the pipework before anyone cuts a wall or opens a trench on a slope.

Related services

• Emergency plumbing
• Blocked drains
• Hot water
• Gas fitting
• Hot water replacement
• Heat pumps
• Leaking taps
• Burst pipes
• Toilets
• Leak detection
• Pipe relining
• Stormwater
• Roof and gutters
• Bathrooms
• Commercial plumbing
• Backflow and maintenance

More guides

• Stormwater on sloping blocks
• Retaining walls and ag drains
• Ageing hot water in 1970s homes
• Tree roots in hillside sewers
• Choosing a plumber
• No hot water checklist
• Burst pipe, first minutes
• Leaking tap, when to call
• Gas heater safety
• Finding your meter on a slope
• Water pressure on the hills
• Hot water for split-level homes