Founded in 1925 by Joseph Wesley Young
Built as a planned city in the 1920s boom, with 1,500 trucks and tractors clearing land and grading streets, plus yacht basins and a power plant.
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Emergency plumbing in Hollywood, from the beach blocks to the 1950s grid
Dispatch takes the address, stays on the line while you find the shut-off, and routes a plumber who knows the building sewer here is the owner’s responsibility by city code.
- CFC1433655Florida plumbing contractor license
- Broward Countyon call across all three counties
Who is responsible for the sewer line at a Hollywood house?
The owner, for the building sewer and its connection. Hollywood city code puts maintenance of that run on the property owner explicitly, which matters because in a city with this much 1920s and 1950s housing, that run is frequently the oldest pipe on the property and the one nobody has ever looked at.
The city supplies the water and takes the wastewater. Hollywood Public Utilities serves more than 140,000 permanent residents and delivers over seven billion gallons of drinking water a year, and city and Broward County permits can be applied for together through one portal.
The one thing worth planning around is history. Hollywood was founded in 1925 as a planned city, and its Historic Preservation Board reviews work inside historic districts. The city says plainly that applications in a historic district may be delayed because additional review is required.
What is under these houses
A city built at once, wrecked once, and rebuilt
Hollywood is one of the original Florida planned communities, and it shows in the housing.
The 1926 hurricane hit it second hardest
Losses here were reportedly second only to Miami. A great deal of the earliest stock was rebuilt immediately after, so a 1925 street can hold 1927 construction.
12,170 single-family homes by 1960
Along with more than 2,400 hotel units. That puts the bulk of the residential stock inside the cast iron era, and much of the commercial stock into shared-stack territory.
The building sewer is yours
City code section 52.07 puts maintenance of the building sewer and its connection on the owner, which is worth knowing before there is a problem rather than during one.
Historic review can add time
The Historic Preservation Board reviews requests inside historic districts, and the city warns that applications there may be delayed by the additional review.
How it fails here
The three calls this city generates
What a 1920s plan, a 1950s build-out and six miles of beach produce.
A drain that keeps coming back
In the mid-century housing the drain is cast iron, corroding from the inside so the bore roughens and holds what should pass. The clog returns on its own schedule regardless of what goes down it.
Ask for a camera before a third clearing.
Cast iron replacementOn the beach blocks, salt from the outside
With five to six miles of Atlantic frontage, copper supply corrodes from outside as well as inside. A pinhole in a line that is not old is usually a report on the whole run rather than one fault.
Ask what the rest of the run looks like.
RepipingDowntown, a stack rather than your line
Where residential sits above commercial in the old business district, a drain load and a grease load share the same stack. One tenant reports it and the cause is usually elsewhere in the building.
Establish which line before opening anything.
Sewer camera inspectionWhere we work
The parts of Hollywood, and what changes between them
Twenty-seven square miles from the ocean to the western suburbs.
The Hollywood Boulevard historic business district
The 1920s commercial core, where residential above commercial means shared stacks and a grease load sitting under a household drain load.
The beach blocks
Five to six miles of Atlantic frontage, where salt air works on copper supply lines from the outside and age in years predicts failure less well than distance from the water.
The mid-century residential grid
The 12,170 single-family homes standing by 1960. This is the cast iron cohort and the source of most recurring-clog calls in the city.
Who owns what
Permits, water and sewer in Hollywood
One city utility, one combined permit portal, and one line that is yours.
- Water
- City of Hollywood Public UtilitiesServing more than 140,000 permanent residents with over seven billion gallons a year.
- Sewer
- City of Hollywood Public UtilitiesCity code section 52.07 puts maintenance of the building sewer and its connection on the property owner.
- Permits
- City of Hollywood Building DivisionCity and Broward County permits can be applied for together through the one-stop portal.
- Historic districts
- Historic Preservation Board reviewThe city warns that applications inside a historic district may be delayed because additional review is required.
Reviews
What customers wrote on Google
Real reviews from the company’s own Google Business Profile, quoted with the reviewer’s public name.
5.075 Google reviews
77of the 77 reviews captured from the profile are five stars, and none is below five.
Read straight from the Google Business Profile on August 20, 2026. Counted, not estimated.
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Questions
Hollywood, specifically
Is the sewer line from my house to the street mine?
The building sewer and its connection are the owner’s to maintain under city code section 52.07. In a city with this much mid-century housing that is usually the oldest pipe on the property, so it is worth seeing rather than assuming.
Will a permit take longer because of my historic district?
It can. The Historic Preservation Board reviews requests inside historic districts and the city states that applications there may be delayed by the additional review. Interior pipe work is usually simpler than anything that changes the building’s appearance.
Why do copper lines fail on the beach side?
Because the corrosion is working from both directions. Salt air attacks the outside of the pipe while water chemistry works on the inside, so a pinhole can appear in a run that is not especially old.
Do I need separate city and county permits?
Both are needed for a lot of work, but they can be applied for together: Hollywood customers can apply for city permits and the associated Broward County permits through the same portal, which removes one round trip.
Nearby
The cities either side of this one
Southeastern Broward neighbors along the coast and inland.
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