Who pays for the water service line in California Water Service, Livermore District, CA
This page answers for the water service line only, and holds no sewer lateral answer or requirement. To see what BelowGrid has for the sewer lateral at a property, look up its address.
Which part of the pipe is yours
Yours from the meter to your building
Why, and what to do
If something’s wrong
Who to call first about the water service line
California Water Service, Livermore District: official site(opens in a new tab)The documents this answer is built on
Who is responsible for which part
The utility owns the service pipe, the curb stop, the meter and the meter box. The customer owns the piping past the meter - and the curb stop, which folklore treats as the boundary, is expressly the utility's.
- California Water Service, Livermore District
- The utility's CPUC tariff states that "the service pipe, curb stop, meter, and meter box furnished by the utility at its own expense and located wholly or partially upon a customer's premises are the property of the utility" - so the run from the main, the fitting at the curb, and the meter itself are all the utility's, even where they sit on the customer's land.
- The property owner
- The piping from the meter onward. The tariff makes this the customer's own job as a condition of getting service: they must "furnish and lay the necessary piping to make the connection from the service connection to the place of consumption" and must "keep such piping in good repair" (section A.2.a). Cal Water puts the same line to householders in plainer words on its help page "Who is responsible for making repairs?": "Property owners are responsible for repairs to plumbing on their side of the water meter." The same page pairs that with "Cal Water is responsible for repairs within the distribution system", which does not say whether the pipe running to your meter counts as part of that system - so if the leak is on the street side of the meter, that is the sentence to put to them.
What else is worth knowing
This answer applies where California Water Service's Livermore system is the supplier: the area the State's register draws for it, about seven-tenths of it inside Livermore and the rest on unincorporated Alameda County ground. Inside Livermore, the City's own water system supplies other parts of the city under its own rules, and its area is left out of this answer. Outside that area another supplier's rules apply. Check that the name on your water bill is California Water Service before relying on it.
Sources
California Water Service, Rule No. 16What this page cannot tell you
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Who governs and serves this area
- Jurisdiction
- California Water Service, Livermore District (special district)
- Sewer service
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