Pelham is a Shelby County city straddling U.S. 31 south of Hoover, known for Oak Mountain State Park, the Pelham Civic Complex, and steady residential growth along the Highway 31 and Shelby County 52 corridors. The city's housing stock spans three distinct eras: older homes near downtown Pelham and along Valley Road that date to the 1950s–1970s, a large wave of 1990s–2000s construction in subdivisions like Ballantrae and Shelby Crossing, and active new construction in the southern reaches near Chelsea. That range means we see everything from aging galvanized supply lines in older Pelham homes to builder-grade water heaters hitting end of life in 1990s subdivisions to new construction rough-in work in the city's growing southern corridor. Pelham is served by the Shelby County Water Authority, and the area's karst limestone geology — common in Shelby County — can affect how buried lines settle and shift over time.