Where BelowGrid can answer
For a covered city, BelowGrid says who owns and maintains the sewer lateral and the water service line at an address, and which local rules apply, each checked against its source document.
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The two pipes
- The sewer lateral carries wastewater from your home to the public sewer in the street.
- The water service line brings water from the main, usually through a meter, to your home.
Who has to repair each one differs from city to city. That is what BelowGrid tells you.
Across the United States
One square per state. A shaded state is live. The deeper the shade, the larger the share of the state’s city residents BelowGrid covers.
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Oregon
3 of 241 cities
826,672 of the 3.0 million people who live in a city in Oregon (28%)
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On the map
- Sewer and water
- Sewer only
- Water only
Every covered place in Oregon
What you get for a covered city
Who owns each pipe
Where the sewer lateral and the water service line stop being the property owner's, and who is responsible for the rest, in the authority's own words.
The local rules
Requirements such as permits and inspections, each linked to the document it comes from.
What to do next
Who governs and serves the area, with a link to each authority, any published help paying for a repair, and a lookup for a specific address.
Good to know
- BelowGrid does not hold records for individual properties. Most of those are kept in permit portals.
- A city that is not covered yet is one where BelowGrid cannot tell you who’s responsible yet. That says nothing about the city itself.
- The figures on this page are counts of published answers, not a measure of the condition of any pipe.
Where property-level records are kept, and which authorities publish anything at all, is surveyed in where U.S. sewer lateral records actually are.