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Who pays for the sewer lateral in Clear Lake City Water Authority, TX

Which part of the pipe is yours

  • Sewer lateral

    Yours all the way to the main under the road — if certain conditions are met

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

If something’s wrong

Who to call first about the sewer lateral

The answer here has conditions, so it is not repeated in brief. Read who to call first, in full or look up your address.

Clear Lake City Water Authority: official site(opens in a new tab)

Repairing, selling or remodelling? BelowGrid has no sewer lateral permit or inspection rule on file for Clear Lake City Water Authority; that does not mean none exists.

Who is responsible for which part

Who to call first

Clear Lake City Water Authority

When to call: you are experiencing a sewer back-up, before you call a plumber

281-488-1164

What happens: the Authority checks its sewer main and clears a blockage in the main at no charge

Source

If Clear Lake City Water Authority is your sewer utility (its name is on your sewer bill), you keep the whole sewer service line, from the home to the Authority's sewer main. The Authority states that "The sanitary sewer service line connects your home to the district's sewer main line" and that "A service line is the property owner's responsibility to install, maintain, repair and replace."

The property owner
The whole sanitary sewer service line, from the home to the Authority's sewer main.

What decides which applies

The dividing point is the Authority's sewer main; the Authority does not say who keeps the joint where the service line meets it. The Authority's page says it clears a blockage in its own sewer main at no charge, and that if its main is clear it will tell you the problem is in your private line. This answer applies only where the Authority is your sewer utility. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality maps the Authority's legal district boundary, about half of it inside the City of Houston and about a third inside Pasadena, but a district boundary is not a map of who provides sewer service. Check the name on your sewer bill.

Sources

Clear Lake City Water Authority, Storm / Sanitary Sewer Systems

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What this page cannot tell you

  • No local requirement has been published here yet. This jurisdiction may well have some - ask it directly.
  • No assistance or grant programme has been reviewed for this jurisdiction yet.
  • BelowGrid holds no separate map of sewer providers here. This page gives Clear Lake City Water Authority's own answer, for the area inside the boundary BelowGrid holds for it; look up an address to see whose answer applies there. That boundary is the district's legal boundary, which is not a map of who provides sewer service.

Who governs and serves this area

Jurisdiction
Clear Lake City Water Authority (special district)
Sewer service
No separate map of sewer providers is held here. This page gives Clear Lake City Water Authority’s own answer, for the area inside the boundary BelowGrid holds for it. That boundary is the district’s legal boundary, which is not a map of who provides sewer service. Look up an address to see whose answer applies there, or check the name on your sewer bill.

How this compares to neighbouring districts

The nearest district draws the line in the same place. Each authority publishes only its own rule.

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

Look up a specific address

This page describes what applies to properties in Clear Lake City Water Authority in general. To see which authorities serve one address, and what records exist for it, search for it.

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