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

The documents this answer is built on

Who is responsible for which part

In Toppenish the property owner maintains and repairs the water service line on the owner's side of the water meter setter. Section 13.16.130(B) of the Toppenish Municipal Code provides that "The maintenance and repair of the water service line on the owner's/customer's side of the water meter setter is the responsibility of the property owner of the premises being served." The code does not say in terms who maintains the pipe between the main and the meter. This is Toppenish's own statement.

The property owner
The water service line on the owner's side of the water meter setter. Section 13.08.060 provides that "Owners of service are responsible for all leaks or damages on account of leaks from the service pipes leading from the city's meter to the premises served."

What else is worth knowing

The dividing point is the water meter setter. Section 13.04.080 vests in the City the ownership of the main connection, service pipes and meters "maintained by the water department", but the code does not say which part of the service line that is, so ask the City's public works department before paying for work between the main and the meter. About 92% of Toppenish'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 8% 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

Toppenish Municipal Code section 13.16.130

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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.

Toppenish: 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 Toppenish'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.
Toppenish: official site

Your other pipe: the sewer lateral

For the sewer lateral, Toppenish says:

In Toppenish the property owner maintains and repairs the sewer service line from its connection to the City's sewer main. Section 13.16.130(B) of the Toppenish Municipal Code provides that "The maintenance and repair of the sanitary sewer service line from the connection to the city's sewer main to the premises is the responsibility of the property owner of the premises being served."

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

Same trench, separate authorities, decided separately.

Who pays for the sewer lateral in Toppenish, WA

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