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Who owns the water service line in Pullman, WA

Which part of the pipe is yours

your buildingproperty linesidewalkstreetmain
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 Pullman about the water service line.

The documents this answer is built on

Who is responsible for which part

Pullman owns and maintains the water service connection from the main up to and including the meter and meter box; the customer owns and maintains the service line from the meter to the building. Section 10A.20.020 of the Pullman City Code provides that "The City shall own and maintain all water service connections from the main to and including the water meter and water meter box. The customer shall own and maintain the service line from the water meter to the premises being served." This is Pullman's own statement.

Pullman
The water service connection from the main up to and including the meter and meter box.
The property owner
The service line from the water meter to the building.

What else is worth knowing

The dividing point is the meter. About 60% of Pullman'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. Washington State University runs its own water system over about 28% of the city. 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

Pullman City Code section 10A.20.020, Ownership (Ord. 88-23, 1988)

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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.

Pullman: 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 Pullman'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.
Pullman: 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 Pullman, WA

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This page describes what applies to properties in Pullman in general. To see which authorities serve one address, and what records exist for it, search for it.

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