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Who owns the water service line in Ellensburg, WA

Which part of the pipe is yours

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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 Ellensburg about the water service line.

The documents this answer is built on

Who is responsible for which part

Ellensburg maintains water service lines up to and including the meter; the customer is responsible for the line from the meter on. Section 9.60.400(B) of the Ellensburg City Code provides that "Maintenance of service lines up to and including meters is the responsibility of the city. Customer is responsible for the service line from the meter to the service facility location." This is Ellensburg's own statement.

Ellensburg
The service line up to and including the meter. Section 9.10.030(A) provides that the City "shall own and maintain all service lines" and other facilities required to provide utility service up to and including the meter or the point of delivery.
The property owner
The service line from the meter to the service facility location. Section 9.10.030(B) requires all equipment on the customer side of the meter to be provided, installed and maintained by the customer.

What else is worth knowing

The dividing point is the meter. Where the location of a point of delivery is in doubt, the utility's records control. About 51% of Ellensburg'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; Palomino Fields serves about 3% under its own rules. About 46% of the city has no published water service area over it, which is not a rival utility and not necessarily unserved. Check the name on your water bill.

Sources

Ellensburg City Code section 9.60.400

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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.

Ellensburg: 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 Ellensburg'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.
Ellensburg: official site

Your other pipe: the sewer lateral

The sewer lateral leaving your property is a separate pipe, run by a separate authority, and who is responsible for it is decided separately. In many places the two answers are opposites.

Sewer lateral requirements in Ellensburg, WA

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