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Who owns the water service line in DuPont, 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 DuPont about the water service line.

The documents this answer is built on

Who is responsible for which part

In DuPont the property owner owns and maintains the water service from the meter to the building. Section 21.01.180 of the DuPont Municipal Code provides that "The ownership and responsibility for the maintenance of individual services from the meter to the premises served shall be that of the owner of the premises served". The code does not say in terms who maintains the pipe between the main and the meter. This is DuPont's own statement.

The property owner
The individual service from the meter to the premises served.

What else is worth knowing

The dividing point is the water meter. Section 21.01.180 vests in the City the ownership of "the water services from the main to the meter box in public rights-of-way", and section 21.01.320 has the City maintain and repair the meters, but no section says who maintains the standard service pipe between the main and the meter, so ask the City's public works department before paying for work there. About 92% of DuPont'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. Joint Base Lewis-McChord's water system covers about 8% of the city. Check the name on your water bill.

Sources

DuPont Municipal Code section 21.01.180

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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.

DuPont: 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 DuPont'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.
DuPont: official site

Your other pipe: the sewer lateral

For the sewer lateral, DuPont says:

In DuPont the property owner maintains the building sewer, including the side sewer stub that runs from the City's sewer to the property line. Section 21.02.010 of the DuPont Municipal Code defines the building sewer, including the side sewer stub, as not part of the City's public sewer facilities and provides that building sewers "shall be maintained by the property owner"; the side sewer stub "shall be considered part of the" building sewer.

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 DuPont, WA

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