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Who owns the water service line in Fillmore, CA

Which part of the pipe is yours

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The thick length is yours.

If something’s wrong

Who to call first about the water service line

BelowGrid has no first-call guidance on file from Fillmore about the water service line.

The documents this answer is built on

Who is responsible for which part

In Fillmore the City's water department repairs the line from the main to the meter, and the owner repairs everything past the meter. Section 16.06.050 of the City's code provides that "The water department is responsible for repairs to the mains and lines from the mains to the meter serving the property. The user is responsible for any repairs of any lines or connections occurring from the meter onto private property." This is Fillmore's own statement.

Fillmore
The mains, and the line from the main to the meter serving the property, which the water department repairs. The code adds that the people authorized to "turn-on, turn-off or repair city water or sewer facilities are members of the maintenance department of the city, or persons authorized by the public works director or his or her designee."
The property owner
Any line or connection from the meter onto private property. The code places those repairs on the "user", which it defines as "the owner of a property that is properly and lawfully connected to the city potable water system".

What else is worth knowing

The line is the meter: the water department's repairs run to it and the owner's begin at it. The code does not say where the meter sits or whose it is, and it charges damage to "any meter, line, valve or fittings" to whoever caused it. Section 16.06.050, which draws the line, also charges after-hours call-outs for a temporary turn-off to the user. The State's register puts the City's system over about 72% of Fillmore's land and no other system over any of it; the remaining 28% 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

Fillmore Municipal Code section 16.06.050, Call-outs after office hours and weekends

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What Fillmore reported to the State about service-line materials

Federal rules required every community water system to inventory its service lines and publish the result. These are the figures this one filed.

The inventory records what each line is made of: lead, galvanized requiring replacement, non-lead, or lead status unknown. “Still unclassified” counts the lines whose material has not been identified. It does not mean they are lead.

Fillmore has classified more of its service lines than most of California: 0.00% of its lines are unclassified, against 9.2% statewide.

Service lines reported
4,570
Still unclassified
0 (0.00%)
Across California, 9.2% of service lines are unclassified.
Share of service lines still unclassified
  • Fillmore0.00%
  • California9.2%

What this page cannot tell you

  • This describes who is responsible for which part of the pipe. It is not a record of what your own service line is made of.
  • The State's service area map puts 72% of Fillmore's land inside the boundary it maps for the city's own water system. A share of land is not a share of homes: open space counts the same as a dense block. Measured 26 Sep 2026.
  • Classified does not mean inspected. Across California only 22% of service lines were established by field inspection; most of the rest come from records, the year of construction, or a predictive model.
  • These figures were submitted to the State by the water system itself and were read on 4 Sep 2026. They may not reflect its current inventory - ask the water system to confirm anything about a specific address.
Fillmore: official site

Your other pipe: the sewer lateral

For the sewer lateral, Fillmore gives the opposite answer to the one above:

Fillmore puts the sewer lateral on the owner. Section 12.08.100 provides that "Each lateral sewer shall be maintained by the owner of the property served thereby."

Your sewer lateral is yours to the main; your water line stops being yours at the meter.

Same trench, separate authorities, decided separately.

Who pays for the sewer lateral in Fillmore, CA

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