Who pays for the sewer lateral in Jurupa Community Services District, CA
Which part of the pipe is yours
Yours all the way to the main, including the fitting where it joins
Why, and what to doYours from the meter to your building
Why, and what to do
If something’s wrong
Who to call first about the sewer lateral
If a repair needs a permit or an inspection
- Who issues it:
- Jurupa Community Services District - a permit to connect to its sewer
- What it covers:
- making a connection to a District public sewer
Jurupa Community Services District's Sewer System Management Plan states that "Ordinance 5, Section 2 requires a permit prior to connecting to a public sewer", and that "The permit application may include review of plans and specifications by the District."
Buying or selling?
No rule on file here is specific to selling or buying; that does not mean none exists.
Planning work?
The remodelling rule in full, with its sourcesWho is responsible for which part
Who to call first
JCSD
What happens: JCSD checks the main and, where a cleanout exists at ground level, inspects it to find whether the stoppage is in the lateral or the indoor plumbing
The whole lateral is yours, including the fitting where it meets the District main - and the District's own page tells you less than that, because it talks about clearing blockages while the ordinance behind it decides repairs.
- The property owner
- Everything from two feet outside the building to and including the connection at the main. The District's page puts the day-to-day half plainly: "the owner of the property is responsible for keeping the sewer lateral clear between the building and the main sewer line as illustrated above", and "locating the sewer lateral is the owner's responsibility, although we will attempt to assist with available records and information". The District will inspect at no charge to establish where a stoppage is, but says it "will not assume the cost of your contractor's call, regardless of the location of the stoppage". Repair and replacement are settled elsewhere, in the District's Ordinance No. 78 of 1989, which is linked below and is a scan. Its section 2 makes the District responsible for the maintenance and repair of the main sewer only, and not for sewer connections, street connections or house sewers as those are defined in Ordinance No. 5 - and those three definitions between them cover the house sewer from two feet outside the foundation wall, the street connection from the property line to the main, and the connection to the main itself.
What else is worth knowing
Sources
Jurupa Community Services District, WastewaterWhat the rules say
Most relevant if you are repairing or replacing the pipe
- Who issues it:
- Jurupa Community Services District - a permit to connect to its sewer
- What it covers:
- making a connection to a District public sewer
Jurupa Community Services District's Sewer System Management Plan states that "Ordinance 5, Section 2 requires a permit prior to connecting to a public sewer", and that "The permit application may include review of plans and specifications by the District."
What to do: Before a lateral is connected or reconnected to the District's sewer, get a permit from Jurupa Community Services District and ask whether it wants plans. Have the contractor contact the District before closing the excavation, and ask the District to inspect before anything is buried. Ask the building department that covers your address - the plan names Riverside County's Department of Building and Safety - whether it must also inspect the lateral, and ask who issues the permit for digging in the street.
Jurupa Community Services District Sewer System Management Plan, Element 3 Legal AuthorityWhy this matters
The whole lateral is the owner's, and the plan says so too: "Property owners are responsible for maintaining the street and house lateral all the way to the main sewer, including reconstruction and repair, per Ordinance 78." A replacement that is reconnected to the District's main therefore needs the District's permit. The District is not the only body involved. The same section of the plan says that "The inspection and testing of sewer laterals is conducted by Riverside County's Department of Building and Safety", and that "The District does not have permitting and approval authority for on-site sewer systems". It also records that Ordinance 5 gives the District the "inspection and approval of the construction of all street connections and house sewers to be built in said district". Ordinance 5 itself is published only as a scan and is not quoted here. Read, it issues permits only to someone who owns the lot or has the right to possess it, sends excavation in the street to a separate road permit (the County's, as written in 1960), requires a contractor building street connections to file an indemnity bond of at least $1,000, and forbids backfilling a sewer trench until the District has inspected the pipe. The District's Wastewater page puts that last point as a request to the contractor working on a lateral: "The contractor should contact us before closing the excavation."
What this page cannot tell you
- No assistance or grant programme has been reviewed for this jurisdiction yet.
Who governs and serves this area
- Jurisdiction
- Jurupa Community Services District (special district)
- Sewer service
Where else this answer applies
The same authorities settle this in the place below too:
It gets its answer from the same authorities.
How this compares to neighbouring districts
2 of the 4 nearest districts draw the line somewhere else. Each authority publishes only its own rule.
Your other pipe: the water service line
For the water service line, Jurupa Community Services District says:
Jurupa Community Services District looks after the service line from the street to the meter, and the customer has everything on their side of it. Asked "where does my responsibility start and stop?", the District answers that the customer's responsibility "starts on their side of meter" and that "The district is responsible from the meter to the street connection."
Your sewer lateral is yours to the main, fitting included; your water line stops being yours at the meter.
What else is worth knowing
Nearby districts and further reading
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