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Who owns the water service line in Bremerton, WA

Which part of the pipe is yours

  • Water service line

    Yours from your property line to your building — if certain conditions are met

    Why, and what to do
  • Sewer lateral

    Yours from your property line to your building

    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 Bremerton about the water service line.

The documents this answer is built on

Who is responsible for which part

Bremerton maintains the water service line in the public right-of-way; the owner is responsible for the private pipes beyond the City's meter. Section 15.02.100 of the Bremerton Municipal Code provides that "The water service line within the public right-of-way shall be maintained by and kept within the exclusive control of the City." This is Bremerton's own statement.

Bremerton
The water service line within the public right-of-way, and the meter. Section 15.02.140 provides that "The City shall not be responsible for servicing private systems beyond its meters".
The property owner
The private water system beyond the City's meter.

What decides which applies

The City's service connections run from the main to the property line, and the City maintains the service line in the right-of-way. The code also says the City does not service private systems beyond its meters; it does not say where the meter must sit, so where a meter is on the property the dividing point may be the meter instead. Meters remain the City's property. About 95% of Bremerton'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; Naval Base Kitsap and Jackson Park run their own systems. Check the name on your water bill.

Sources

Bremerton Municipal Code section 15.02.100, Service connections (Ord. 5427

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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.

Bremerton: 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 Bremerton'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.
Bremerton: official site

Your other pipe: the sewer lateral

For the sewer lateral, Bremerton says:

In Bremerton the City owns and maintains the sewer service connection from the main to the property line; the owner is responsible for the private sewer on the property. Section 15.03.080 of the Bremerton Municipal Code provides that "The service connections shall be extended at right angles from the wastewater system to a point adjacent to the property line and shall be maintained by and kept within the exclusive control of the City."

Both pipes divide in the same place here — the property line.

Same trench, separate authorities, decided separately.

Who pays for the sewer lateral in Bremerton, WA

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