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Who pays for the sewer lateral in Reedley, CA

Which part of the pipe is yours

  • Sewer lateral

    Yours all the way to the main under the road

    Why, and what to do
  • Water service line

    Yours from the meter to your building — if certain conditions are met

    Why, and what to do
your buildingproperty linesidewalkstreetmain
The thick length is yours. A dashed marker means the position depends on your property — see below.

If something’s wrong

If a repair needs a permit or an inspection

  • Before work on the pipe · Permit

    Who issues it:
    City of Reedley building inspection division, with a separate public works director's permit for work in the right-of-way
    What it covers:
    constructing or replacing a building sewer to the main, and any part of that work in the street

    Reedley City Code section 8-3-2 requires anyone who will "construct a building sewer from a house, commercial or industrial plant, to a main sewer or existing building sewer within a public right of way or public easement" to obtain a permit from the building inspection division, and provides that "Any person performing said construction or any portion thereof within the public right of way or easement shall, in addition, first obtain from the public works director a permit to do so".

The repair rule in full, with its sources

No rule on file here is specific to selling, buying, remodelling or adding a unit; that does not mean none exists.

Who to call first about the sewer lateral

BelowGrid has no first-call guidance on file from Reedley about the sewer lateral.

Reedley: official site(opens in a new tab)The documents this answer is built on

Who is responsible for which part

Reedley puts the building sewer on the owner all the way to the main. Section 8-3-3 provides that "Building sewers between the building drains and the main sewer shall not be considered appurtenances to or part of the main sewer and the responsibility for maintenance of said building sewer shall be that of the owner or person in charge of the premises served by said building sewer."

The property owner
The building sewer from the building drain to the main sewer, the length under the street included. Its installation is the owner's too: section 8-2-4 provides that "All costs and expense incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner."

What else is worth knowing

Nothing conditions the split: the City maintains only main sewers it has accepted, and the building sewer is expressly not part of them. These sections govern property on the City's sewer; not every address inside the city limits is on it, so check the name on your sewer bill first.

Sources

Reedley City Code section 8-3-3, Plan required

Also quoted:

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What is required

  • Before work on the pipePermit
    Who issues it:
    City of Reedley building inspection division, with a separate public works director's permit for work in the right-of-way
    What it covers:
    constructing or replacing a building sewer to the main, and any part of that work in the street

    Reedley City Code section 8-3-2 requires anyone who will "construct a building sewer from a house, commercial or industrial plant, to a main sewer or existing building sewer within a public right of way or public easement" to obtain a permit from the building inspection division, and provides that "Any person performing said construction or any portion thereof within the public right of way or easement shall, in addition, first obtain from the public works director a permit to do so".

    What to do: Before replacing the building sewer, have the contractor obtain both permits, give public works the 24 hours' notice for the connection, and book the inspection before backfilling.

    Why this matters

    The owner's building sewer runs to the main, so replacing it is two permits, not one - the building inspection permit and the public works permit for the street - and the trench "shall remain unfilled until inspection shall have been made". A connection to the main must be made under the public works director's supervision, with at least twenty-four hours' notice.

    Checked

    Reedley City Code section 8-3-2, Permit required; fee

What this page cannot tell you

  • 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
Reedley (municipality)
Sewer service
No map of sewer providers is held here. BelowGrid cannot say which sewer provider serves an individual address.

How this compares to neighbouring cities

3 of the 6 nearest cities draw the line somewhere else. Each authority publishes only its own rule.

  • Reedley(this page)
    the main
  • Dinubaabout 5 mi
    the main
  • Parlierabout 5 mi
    the main
  • Clovisabout 21 mi
    the main, including the connection fitting on the main
  • Visaliaabout 20 mi
    the main, including the connection fitting on the main
  • Fresnoabout 23 mi
    the main
  • Kermanabout 35 mi
    the main, including the connection fitting on the main

Distances are approximate, in a straight line between the places’ centres.

Compare the rules city by city

Your other pipe: the water service line

The drinking water line coming into your property is a separate pipe, run by a separate authority, and who is responsible for it is decided separately. Your sewer lateral is yours to the main; your water line stops being yours at the meter.

Who owns the water service line in Reedley

Nearby cities and further reading

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