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Who owns the water service line in Lynnwood, WA

Which part of the pipe is yours

  • Water service line

    Yours from the meter to your building — if certain conditions are met

    Why, and what to do
  • Sewer lateral

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

    Why, and what to do
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 Lynnwood about the water service line.

The documents this answer is built on

Who is responsible for which part

Lynnwood's water utility installs, owns and maintains the service connection from the main up to and including the service cock or meter; the customer maintains the line from there to the building. Section 13.12.050 of the Lynnwood Municipal Code provides that "The water utility only shall install, own, maintain and operate the water service connection from the main to and including the service cock or meter." This is Lynnwood's own statement.

Lynnwood
The water service connection from the main up to and including the service cock or meter.
The property owner
The service line from the point of delivery to the building. Section 13.12.040 provides that "The service line from the point of delivery to the customer's building shall be installed and maintained by the customer".

What decides which applies

The dividing point is the service cock or meter. Section 13.12.050 adds that where a meter is "located a considerable distance from the main for customer or service convenience, the customer shall maintain the service pipe for the entire distance from the normally designated location of the service cock or meter". About 91% of Lynnwood'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. Alderwood Water District serves about 8% under its own rules. Check the name on your water bill.

Sources

Lynnwood Municipal Code section 13.12.050, Ownership

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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.

Lynnwood: 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 Lynnwood'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.
Lynnwood: official site

Your other pipe: the sewer lateral

For the sewer lateral, Lynnwood says:

In Lynnwood the City owns and maintains the service lateral from the sewer main to the property line; the owner owns and maintains the side sewer on the property. Section 14.16.015 of the Lynnwood Municipal Code provides that "All service lateral sewers shall be deemed the property of the city, and the city shall be responsible for the maintenance of the same. All side sewers shall be the property of the property owner, and shall be maintained by him at his sole expense."

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 Lynnwood, WA

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