Plumber in Freeport, NYEmergency Plumbing, Drains, Water Heaters & Flood Recovery

One of the oldest housing stocks on the South Shore.

Freeport incorporated as a village on October 18, 1892. By 1937 it was the largest village in Nassau County, according to Wikipedia's village history. The Census Bureau's latest five-year survey counts about 14,800 homes. A third of them (33%) were built before 1940, 64% before 1960, and the median year built is 1953. 63% are single-family detached and 29% are in buildings with five or more units. Wikipedia notes that so many apartment buildings went up in the early 1960s that the village passed a moratorium on new multi-unit construction. 71% of homes are owner-occupied.

Pre-war houses often have original piping mixed with decades of repairs. Apartment buildings share drain stacks, so one clog can back up several units. We find where the problem actually is before we replace anything.

Sandy put the south side under saltwater.

In 2012, nearly 3,500 Freeport homes had saltwater flooding, according to the mayor's figures reported by Newsday. "Everything south of Atlantic Avenue was flooded," and the Nautical Mile on Woodcleft Canal sat under six to seven feet of water. Since then the village has repaired bulkheads, raised low streets and added check valves to the storm drains. Water still comes in. The National Weather Service logged 2 to 3 feet of water on roads south of Atlantic Avenue in the December 23, 2022 coastal flood. If your water heater, boiler or gas appliances sat in floodwater, have them checked before you relight them. On the sanitary side, a backwater (sewer check) valve on your house sewer line closes if the sewer backs up, so sewage can't flow in through basement and utility-room drains. We install them; in Freeport the work needs a village plumbing permit. The village Building Department handles flood-zone and elevated-house questions.

Your water: the Village of Freeport Water Department.

The village pumps its own water from 11 wells at three well fields, 500 to 700 feet deep in the Magothy aquifer. It serves about 10,200 metered connections through 126 miles of mains, according to its 2025 Annual Water Quality Report. The raw water is acidic, and some wells are high in iron. The village adds caustic soda to raise the pH and phosphates to sequester iron and cut metal leaching from household plumbing. The report says the water met every federal, state and county standard except iron, which it calls naturally occurring and aesthetic: "occasionally a slight coloration." Hardness was very low (6.4–7.3 mg/L). If you see orange staining on fixtures or laundry, an iron filter sized to that report can help. The village has a lead service line inventory and will send it on request.

Sewer: village lines into the county system.

Freeport keeps its own sanitary sewer system, which flows into Nassau County's sewer system for treatment. For a problem in the street, call the village's Water & Sewer superintendent at (516) 377-2379. For the line from your house to the street, call us.

Permits come from the village, not the town.

Plumbing work inside Freeport needs a permit from the Village of Freeport Building Department (46 N. Ocean Ave.). The application must be filed by a plumber licensed by the village. For oil-to-gas conversions, the form also requires a separate filing to remove or abandon the oil tank.