Who owns the water service line in Marina, CA
Which part of the pipe is yours
Yours from the meter to your building
Why, and what to doYours all the way to the main under the road
Why, and what to do
If something’s wrong
Who to call first about the water service line
Who is responsible for which part
Marina Coast Water District owns the service connection and keeps it up, meter and box included, wherever it runs. Section 3.12.010 provides that "The service connection, whether located on public or private property, is the property of the district", and that "The service connection, including the meter and the meter box, will be repaired and maintained by the district at its expense, but the district is not responsible for the installation and maintenance of water lines beyond the end of its service connection." This is Marina Coast Water District's own statement.
- Marina Coast Water District
- The service connection from the main, including the meter and meter box, owned by the District on public or private property and repaired and maintained at its expense.
- The property owner
- Everything on the customer's side of the meter. Section 3.12.060 provides that "The customer's responsibility begins on the customer's side of the meter."
What else is worth knowing
Sources
Marina Coast Water District Codes and Ordinances, Title 3, Water Service SystemWhat Marina Coast Water District 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.
Marina Coast Water District has classified more of its service lines than most of California: 0.00% of its lines are unclassified, against 9.2% statewide.
- 13,322
- 0 (0.00%)
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 effectively all of Marina's land inside the boundary it maps for Marina Coast Water District. Measured 25 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.
Your other pipe: the sewer lateral
For the sewer lateral, Marina Coast Water District gives the opposite answer to the one above:
In Marina the whole side sewer, from the building to the main, is the owner's to maintain. Marina Coast Water District's code provides that "Side sewers 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.
Who pays for the sewer lateral in Marina, CALook up a specific address
This page describes what applies to properties in Marina in general. To see which authorities serve one address, and what records exist for it, search for it.
Search for an addressHow this compares across California
- Why your two pipes disagree — the places where the sewer and water authorities contradict each other about the run beneath the road.
- Which water systems know what is buried — how much of each California system’s network the utility can actually identify.