South Riding was designed with a strong emphasis on green space, mature landscaping, and tree-lined streetscapes. Twenty-plus years after the community’s development, those design goals have been achieved beautifully — the trees are large, the canopy is full, and the neighborhoods feel genuinely established. Underneath that canopy, however, is a sewer infrastructure that is now...

One of the most surprising service calls a plumber makes is to a home that is less than five years old. The homeowners are confused — everything is new, the builder warranty covered the first year, and they have been doing everything right. And yet the kitchen drain is slow, the shower is pooling, and...

Middleburg is one of the most beautifully preserved communities in Virginia. The Hunt Country architecture, the stone walls, the mature estates, and the historic properties along Washington Street represent generations of careful stewardship. What that stewardship rarely extends to is the sewer infrastructure beneath those properties — pipes that in many cases have been in...