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Who owns the water service line in Everett, WA

Which part of the pipe is yours

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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 Everett about the water service line.

The documents this answer is built on

Who is responsible for which part

Everett installs, owns and maintains the water service connection from the main up to and including the service cock or meter; the customer maintains the pipe beyond it. Section 14.16.170 provides that "The utilities division only shall install, own, maintain and operate the water service connection from the main to and including the service cock or meter." This is Everett's own statement.

Everett
The water service connection from the main to and including the service cock or meter.
The property owner
The service pipe from the service cock or meter to the point where the water is used.

What decides which applies

Where a meter is set a considerable distance from the main for the customer's or the service's convenience, section 14.16.170 has the customer maintain the service pipe "for the entire distance from the normally designated location of the service cock or meter to the point of ultimate water usage or consumption", so the City's part ends at the normal meter location rather than at the meter itself. Ask the City's utilities division where that is before paying for work. About 82% of Everett'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. About 2% is inside the area of Mukilteo Water and Wastewater District, which serves it under its own rules, and about 15% 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

Everett Municipal Code section 14.16.170

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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.

Everett: 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 Everett'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.
Everett: official site

Your other pipe: the sewer lateral

For the sewer lateral, Everett says:

Everett owns and maintains the side sewer connection inside the public right-of-way, and the property owner repairs and maintains the side sewer from the building to the right-of-way. Section 14.08.260(A) of the Everett Municipal Code provides that "The city sewer department shall subsequent to approved installation, own, maintain and operate side sewer connections within the boundaries of the public right-of-way."

Your sewer lateral is yours to the property line; your water line stops being yours at the meter.

Same trench, separate authorities, decided separately.

Who pays for the sewer lateral in Everett, WA

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