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

The documents this answer is built on

Who is responsible for which part

In Marysville the City owns the water service connection from the main to the meter; the line from the meter to the building is a private water line. Section 14.03.060 of the Marysville Municipal Code describes "any water service connection owned by the city (i.e., the line between the water main and the water meter)" and "private water lines (i.e., the line between the water meter and the building)". The code does not say in the same words who repairs either length. This is Marysville's own statement.

Marysville
Title to the service connection between the water main and the meter, and to the meter itself.
The property owner
The private water line between the meter and the building.

What else is worth knowing

The dividing point is the meter. Section 14.01.020 provides that "The city shall have no maintenance, repair or replacement obligation with respect to lines which it does not own." About 87% of Marysville'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 12% 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

Marysville Municipal Code section 14.03.060

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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.

Marysville: 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 Marysville'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.
Marysville: 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 Marysville, WA

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