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Who owns the water service line in Battle Ground, WA

Which part of the pipe is yours

  • Water service line

    Yours from the meter to your building — if certain conditions are met

    Why, and what to do
  • Sewer lateral

    Yours all the way to the main under the road — unless Clark Regional Wastewater District is your sewer provider

    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 water service line

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

The documents this answer is built on

Who is responsible for which part

Battle Ground maintains the existing water service connections, including the meter facilities; the customer installs and maintains the house connection. Section 13.110.015 of the Battle Ground Municipal Code provides that "The city will maintain all existing service connections, including the meter facilities, subject to the regulations hereinafter included." This is Battle Ground's own statement.

Battle Ground
The existing service connections, including the meter facilities.
The property owner
The house connection. Section 13.110.015 provides that "The house connection shall be installed and maintained by the customer at his own expense", and section 13.110.020(A) has the customer maintain in safe condition all equipment for receiving water at the house connection.

What decides which applies

The City's part includes the meter facilities and the customer's part is the house connection; the code does not define where the house connection begins, so ask the City's public works department if work is needed near the meter. Water lines placed outside city right-of-way are privately maintained unless the city engineer accepts them. About 75% of Battle Ground'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; Clark Public Utilities serves about 25% under its own rules. Check the name on your water bill.

Sources

Battle Ground Municipal Code section 13.110.015, Water service

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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.

Battle Ground: 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 Battle Ground's 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.
Battle Ground: official site

Your other pipe: the sewer lateral

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

In Battle Ground the property owner is responsible for the whole sewer lateral, from the city main sewer to the building. Section 13.120.050 of the Battle Ground Municipal Code provides that "The abutting property owner shall be responsible for installation, connection, maintenance and operation of the sewer lateral from the city main sewer to the property and structure served."

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 Battle Ground, WA

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