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Who pays for the water service line in Placer County Water Agency, Colfax, 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

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Who to call first about the water service line

BelowGrid has no first-call guidance on file from Placer County Water Agency, Colfax about the water service line.

Placer County Water Agency, Colfax: official site(opens in a new tab)The documents this answer is built on

Who is responsible for which part

Placer County Water Agency keeps its system up to the point where it delivers the water. Its rules provide that "The Agency shall be responsible for operating, maintaining, and replacing all portions of the water system up to the Point of Delivery to the customer", and define that point as "The location where the Agency delivers service and privately owned facilities begin."

Placer County Water Agency, Colfax
Operating, maintaining and replacing its water system up to the Point of Delivery. The rules define the service connection as the facilities "which connect the water main to the customer meter, which typically include a service saddle, corporation stop, service line, curb stop and meter box."
The property owner
The privately owned facilities that begin at the Point of Delivery. For an ordinary treated-water service the rules do not say in terms where that point is, and they assign the customer's upkeep only by defining where private facilities begin.

What else is worth knowing

The rules describe the service connection as running from the main to the customer meter, but separately define the handover as the Point of Delivery - not the meter - so ask the Agency before paying for a repair near it. Where several metered customers share a privately owned line, the Agency sets a monitor meter at the head of the private line and that becomes the Point of Delivery, so the shared line is the owners'. The State's register puts the Agency's Colfax system over about 89% of Colfax; the rest, about 11%, 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

Placer County Water Agency, Rules, Regulations, Rates and Charges (effective 1 January 2026)

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What this page cannot tell you

  • This page answers for the water service line only and holds no sewer lateral answer or requirement. Look up an address to see what BelowGrid has for the sewer lateral there.
  • No assistance or grant programme has been reviewed for this jurisdiction yet.
  • No sewer service territory has been mapped for this area, so BelowGrid cannot say who serves an individual address.

Who governs and serves this area

Jurisdiction
Placer County Water Agency, Colfax (special district)
Sewer service
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