If you own a home near the Square or an older property off North Lamar, there is a good chance your sewer lateral is clay tile or early cast iron that has been in the ground since long before the University of Mississippi’s current enrollment doubled the town’s footprint. Oxford sits in the North Central Hills, the red-clay-and-loess uplands that give Lafayette County its rolling terrain — and that terrain is exactly why a dug-up repair here is so disruptive. Sloped lots, mature hardwoods, and brick-paved historic streets turn a routine sewer replacement into a landscaping and hardscaping project.
Pelican Underground repairs and replaces sewer lines in Oxford without trenching across your yard. Using cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) lining and pipe bursting, we rehabilitate the line through one or two small access points, leaving your grade, your trees, and your driveway intact.
Oxford’s clay-heavy hill soils hold moisture and shift with the seasons, and the town’s characteristic slopes mean sewer laterals often run at steep, uneven grades before they reach the main. When a joint separates or a section bellies on a graded lot, the traditional fix means excavating downhill through compacted clay — and backfilled clay never settles the way undisturbed ground does. Trenchless rehabilitation avoids re-opening that soil entirely: we line or burst the existing pipe in place, so the surrounding grade is never destabilized.
Around the historic core — the Courthouse Square, the streets behind Rowan Oak, and the older residential blocks north of downtown — many laterals are original clay tile with root-invaded joints. CIPP lining seals those joints from the inside and blocks the root intrusion that Oxford’s large water oaks and magnolias are notorious for causing.
The restaurants, bars, and shops ringing the Courthouse Square run grease-heavy, high-volume waste lines through some of the oldest infrastructure in Oxford, and a shutdown for open-cut repair on a working downtown block is costly in both revenue and permitting. For those lines we combine hydro jetting — which scours out the grease and scale that clog commercial laterals — with camera inspection and, where the pipe is compromised, in-place lining. It keeps the storefront open and the sidewalk intact while the line is restored.
For any Oxford property, older residential or downtown commercial, the sequence is the same: we camera the line first to see exactly what’s happening, then recommend the least invasive fix that will actually last — cleaning, lining, or a targeted pipe burst.
As the leading experts in trenchless sewer services in Oxford, we at Pelican Underground LLC have spent countless hours honing our skills and perfecting our techniques. Our professional team is dedicated to providing the highest quality of service with the minimum amount of disruption to your property. We’ve become proficient in using advanced methods that eliminate the need for costly and time-consuming excavation.
We’re not just experienced; we’re also efficient. Our innovative solutions allow us to tackle any sewer issue without digging up your entire yard. We employ state-of-the-art technology to pinpoint the problem, ensuring accuracy in our diagnosis and precision in our repair. Trenchless technology solutions for Oxford and Lafayette County, approved contractor by the Mississippi State Board of Contractors for complete trenchless sewer repair and rehabilitation offerings.
We understand that sewer issues can be a headache. That’s why we’re committed to delivering fast, efficient, and reliable service. We’re detail-oriented, leaving no stone unturned in our quest to resolve your sewer problems. We take pride in our work, and it shows in the results we deliver.
We serve Oxford and the surrounding Lafayette County communities, including Taylor, Abbeville, and the University area. If your property is on a county road outside city limits, call us with the address and we’ll confirm coverage.
In most cases, yes. Clay tile laterals are one of the best candidates for CIPP lining — as long as the pipe still holds its shape, we can cure a new seamless pipe inside it and seal the root-invaded joints that clay tile is prone to, without excavating your historic lot.
That’s one of the most useful times to do it. A sewer camera inspection during a turnover gives you a clear record of the line’s condition, and if we find a problem we can often line it before the next lease begins — avoiding a backup during a full football weekend.
Yes. Because we work through small access points rather than a continuous trench, grade and slope actually favor trenchless here — we’re not re-excavating and re-compacting the hillside soils that make open-cut repairs settle unevenly in Oxford.
