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Who owns the water service line in Anacortes, WA

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 Anacortes about the water service line.

The documents this answer is built on

Who is responsible for which part

Anacortes puts in and keeps the tap, the service pipe and the meter near the curb; the owner keeps the service pipe beyond the meter in repair. Section 13.20.090 of the Anacortes Municipal Code provides that "The service pipe beyond the meter and wheel valve must be kept in repair by the owner or occupant of the premises who will be responsible for all damages resulting from breaks therein." This is Anacortes's own statement.

Anacortes
The tap to the main and the necessary pipe, including a curb cock, meter, stopcock and drain cock placed about one foot within the line of the street curb, which section 13.20.080 says "will be put in and maintained by the city and kept within its exclusive ownership and control".
The property owner
The service pipe beyond the meter and wheel valve.

What else is worth knowing

The dividing point is the meter and wheel valve near the curb. About 99% of Anacortes's land is inside the City's water service area as the Washington State Department of Health maps it, and this answer applies only inside that area. Check the name on your water bill.

Sources

Anacortes Municipal Code section 13.20.090, Service pipe

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What the pipe is made of

Washington publishes no statewide inventory of what service lines are made of. Each water system filed its own with the State, and federal rules require the utility to make it public, so the utility is the place to ask what is recorded for this address.

Anacortes: official site

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 answer applies inside the area the State maps for Anacortes' own water system, which does not follow the city limits: some addresses in the city are served by another supplier, and some outside it are served by the city. An address search checks which side an address is on.
  • 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.
Anacortes: official site

Your other pipe: the sewer lateral

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

In Anacortes the property owner pays for repairing and replacing the private side sewer all the way to the public sewer main. Section 13.04.045(B)(1) of the Anacortes Municipal Code provides that "The property owner is responsible for the cost of repair, installation and replacement of the private sanitary side sewer from the structure to the point of connection at the public sewer main."

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

Same trench, separate authorities, decided separately.

Who pays for the sewer lateral in Anacortes, WA

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