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Who owns the water service line in Yountville, CA

Which part of the pipe is yours

your buildingproperty linesidewalkstreetmain
The thick length is yours.

If something’s wrong

Who to call first about the water service line

BelowGrid has no first-call guidance on file from Yountville about the water service line.

The documents this answer is built on

Who is responsible for which part

Yountville owns and maintains the service from the main to and including the meter, and the property owner repairs everything after the meter. Section 13.16.020 of the Town's code provides that "The service extending from the distribution main to and including the meter, whether located on public or private property, is the property of the Town." This is Yountville's own statement.

Yountville
The service connection, including the meter and meter box, which section 13.16.030 has the Town repair and maintain at its expense; the Town is not responsible for the installation and maintenance of water lines beyond the end of its service.
The property owner
The line after the meter. The Town's water utility page tells residents that "If the leak is on your property after the water meter, the property owner is responsible for repairs."

What else is worth knowing

The dividing point is the meter, usually in the front yard just behind the street curb. The code has the customer furnish and install the connection from the main to the curb or property line, through a licensed contractor; the Town owns and maintains it afterwards. The State's register puts the Town's system over about 86% of Yountville and the Veterans Home of California's system over about 3%; the rest, about 13%, is ground that no published water service area reaches - not a rival utility, and not necessarily unserved. Check the name on your water bill.

Sources

Yountville Municipal Code chapter 13.16

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What Yountville 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.

Yountville has classified more of its service lines than most of California: 0.00% of its lines are unclassified, against 9.2% statewide.

Service lines reported
844
Still unclassified
0 (0.00%)
Across California, 9.2% of service lines are unclassified.
Galvanized requiring replacement
15
Galvanized pipe that sat downstream of a lead or unknown line, which federal rules require to be replaced.
Share of service lines still unclassified
  • Yountville0.00%
  • California9.2%

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 86% of Yountville's land inside the boundary it maps for the city's own water system. A share of land is not a share of homes: open space counts the same as a dense block. 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.
Yountville: official site

Your other pipe: the sewer lateral

The sewer lateral leaving your property is a separate pipe, run by a separate authority, and who is responsible for it is decided separately. In many places the two answers are opposites.

Sewer lateral requirements in Yountville, CA

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