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Who owns the water service line in Enumclaw, WA

Which part of the pipe is yours

your buildingproperty linesidewalkstreetmain
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 Enumclaw about the water service line.

The documents this answer is built on

Who is responsible for which part

In Enumclaw the City owns the residential water service line from the main to the meter, and all piping beyond the meter assembly is the customer's responsibility. Section 14.04.020 of the Enumclaw Municipal Code provides that "All piping beyond the meter assembly is the customer's responsibility and is not considered a part of the service installation." This is Enumclaw's own statement.

Enumclaw
Title to residential service lines from the main to the meter. Section 14.04.045 provides that "Water service lines from the main to the meter for residential customers shall be owned by the city." The code does not say in the same words that the City maintains them.
The property owner
All piping beyond the meter assembly.

What decides which applies

The dividing point is the meter assembly. For nonresidential customers the line from the main to the meter may be customer owned by written agreement or as the City decides. About 99% of Enumclaw'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

Enumclaw Municipal Code section 14.04.020, Definitions (Ord. 2769, 2023)

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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.

Enumclaw: 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 Enumclaw'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.
Enumclaw: official site

Your other pipe: the sewer lateral

For the sewer lateral, Enumclaw says:

In Enumclaw the property owner is solely responsible for the private side sewer all the way to the public sewer, including the part under the street. Section 14.08.530(C) of the Enumclaw Municipal Code provides that "Property owners are solely responsible for the construction, maintenance, operations, repairs, or replacement of the private side sewer and any surface reconstruction requirements when performing said repairs."

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 Enumclaw, WA

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