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

The documents this answer is built on

Who is responsible for which part

In Redmond the property owner owns and is responsible for the water service line beyond the customer side of the meter setter, and the meter is the City's. Section 13.08.020 of the Redmond Municipal Code provides that "Water service lines beyond the customer side of the water meter setter shall be owned by and the responsibility of the property owner." The code does not say who maintains the line between the main and the meter. This is Redmond's own statement.

The property owner
The water service line beyond the customer side of the meter setter, and any exempt meter and backflow preventer.

What else is worth knowing

The dividing point is the customer side of the meter setter. Section 13.08.020 provides that "All water meters furnished by the City in such installations or connections shall be and remain the property of the City." No section read says who repairs the pipe between the main and the meter, so ask the City before paying for work on that length. About 94% of Redmond'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. Other systems serve the rest under their own rules: Woodinville Water District about 3% and Union Hill Water Association about 1.4%. Check the name on your water bill.

Sources

Redmond Municipal Code section 13.08.020, Meters city property (Ord. 194

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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.

Redmond: 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 Redmond'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.
Redmond: 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 Redmond, WA

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

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