Who pays for the water service line in Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency, 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
Yours from the meter to your building
Why, and what to do
If something’s wrong
Who to call first about the water service line
Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency: official site(opens in a new tab)The documents this answer is built on
Who is responsible for which part
Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency "owns, operates and maintains the Service Connection, up to and including the meter", and the property owner has the Customer Service Line after it. The divide is written to the fitting - the outlet of the shut-off valve just past the meter. Note that you pay for the service lateral and meter and the Agency still owns them; what that buys is the Agency keeping them up afterwards.
- Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency
- Everything from the main to the meter, owned and operated and maintained. The Agency's Customer Service Policy states that "the Agency owns, operates and maintains the Service Connection, up to and including the meter", and defines that Service Connection as "the Agency's facilities including pipe, fittings, meter, meter box and check valve or backflow prevention device and shut-off valve, extending from the Agency's potable or recycled water main to the outlet of the shut-off valve downstream of the meter". Section 5.4.2 adds that "the service lateral, meter, and meter box or other facilities furnished at the Customer's expense, whether located wholly or partially upon a Customer's premises, are the property of the Agency".
- The property owner
- The Customer Service Line, which starts just past the meter. The Agency defines it as "the Customer's facilities including pipe, fittings and appurtenances extending from the outlet of the shut-off valve downstream of the Agency's meter, check valve or backflow prevention device", and section 13.10 puts the duty plainly: the customer "shall, at its own risk and expense, furnish, install and keep in good and safe condition all of the equipment on the Customer's side of the meter that may be required for receiving, controlling, applying and utilizing water".
What else is worth knowing
Sources
Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency, Customer Service Policy, adopted by the Board of Directors 4 August 2026What 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
- Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency (special district)
- Sewer service
- No map of sewer providers is held here. BelowGrid cannot say which sewer provider serves an individual address.
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