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Who owns the water service line in Yreka, CA

Which part of the pipe is yours

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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 Yreka about the water service line.

The documents this answer is built on

Who is responsible for which part

Yreka maintains the water system up to the meter, and the property owner owns the line from the meter to the house. The City's water page states that "The Maintenance Division maintains the water mains from the tanks on the hills to the water meter near each property" and that "The property owner owns the line from the output side of the meter, the side closest to a house." This is Yreka's own statement.

Yreka
The water system up to the meter. "The valve on the input side of the meter is owned by the City and maintained by the Maintenance Division." The municipal code provides that "The city will maintain and keep in repair each service pipe between the mains and the curb cock controlling the service", and that meters "shall be and will remain the property of the city".
The property owner
The line from the output side of the meter to the house. The City's utility answers add that "Property owners are responsible for maintaining all water laterals and water pipes on their side of the meter."

What else is worth knowing

The line is the meter. The municipal code's wording is older and conditional: the City keeps the service pipe in repair as far as the curb cock "providing the same is in the roadway", where the service was installed according to the rules, and where the damage does not come from "some improper act or omission" of the owner or tenant. Where your meter is not at the curb, ask the City before paying for a repair between the curb and the meter. The State's register puts the City's system over about 98% of Yreka's land and no other system over more than 1% of it; not every address is inside the City's mapped service area, so check the name on your water bill.

Sources

City of Yreka, Public Works Maintenance Division, Water

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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.
  • This authority's service line inventory - the record of which pipes are lead, and where - has not been matched here yet. Ask the utility for yours.
Yreka: official site

Your other pipe: the sewer lateral

For the sewer lateral, Yreka gives the opposite answer to the one above:

In Yreka the property owner maintains the whole sewer lateral to the City's main, including the connection to it. Section 12.16.035(d)(1) of the City's code provides that "The property owner at property owner's expense shall maintain all sewer laterals and private sewers", and names among them "the connection to a city sanitary sewer main".

Your sewer lateral is yours to the main, fitting included; your water line stops being yours at the meter.

Same trench, separate authorities, decided separately.

Who pays for the sewer lateral in Yreka, CA

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