Who pays for the water service line in Del Oro Water Company, Ferndale 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
Del Oro Water Company, Ferndale District: official site(opens in a new tab)The documents this answer is built on
Who is responsible for which part
Del Oro Water Company owns the service pipe, the curb stop, the meter and the meter box; the customer lays the piping from there to the house and keeps it in repair. That is the split the company's CPUC tariff draws, and its billing page adds that repairs to the customer's water lines are not the company's job.
- Del Oro Water Company, Ferndale District
- Title to the run from the main to the meter. The company's Rule 16, on tariff sheets 322-W to 328-W effective in 1991 and posted as a scanned image, says the utility will "furnish and install the service pipe, curb stop, meter and meter box" at its own expense - where there are dedicated streets or easements, at a convenient place between the property line and the curb or, where necessary, inside the customer's property line; and it provides that those facilities are the utility's property even where they sit wholly or partly on the customer's premises. The rule states no duty to repair them - its access clause lets the company reach its equipment, which is permission rather than a promise. The company's billing FAQ says the same of the fittings a customer can see: "The water meter and valve are DOWC property". The company's definitions (Rule 1, effective 1 February 2020) place the service connection at "The point of the customer's piping or ditch with the meter, service pipe, or ditch owned by the utility."
- The property owner
- The piping from the service connection to the house. Rule 16 makes it a condition of service that the customer furnishes and lays that piping and "shall keep such piping in good repair", and fits a main valve on it between the service connection and the point of use. The company's billing FAQ describes "customer-requested repairs to the customer's water lines" as work "not part of Del Oro's responsibility", for which a charge may apply.
What else is worth knowing
The line is the service connection, where your piping meets the company's meter - which the tariff places, on a street, between the property line and the curb, or inside the property line where necessary, so your side may begin in the street verge or on your own land. The tariff wording that places it is posted only as a scanned image dated 1991; the definition of the service connection is on a later sheet that can be searched. The tariff gives the company title to the pipe up to the meter but does not say in terms who repairs it, so if a leak is on the street side of the meter, report it to Del Oro and ask before paying anyone. The State's register puts Del Oro's Ferndale system over about 87% of Ferndale's land and no other system over any of it; the remaining 13% or so is ground inside the city limits that no published water service area reaches - not a rival utility, and not necessarily unserved. Check the name on your water bill.
Sources
Del Oro Water Co., Inc., Rule No. 16What this page cannot tell you
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Who governs and serves this area
- Jurisdiction
- Del Oro Water Company, Ferndale District (special district)
- Sewer service
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