Question: What
is customer owned underground piping?
Answer: It
is any steel or iron pipe downstream of the gas meter
that exists below ground level outside the foundation
walls. In most cases, the piping downstream of the
meter goes directly into the house near the meter.
Gas piping that exists in the crawl space of a home
is not considered underground. For more information,
download our Customer Owned Underground Piping brochure
as a PDF file. (If you don't have the Acrobat reader,
you may download it
from Adobe's website.)
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Question: How
do I know if my property has customer owned underground
piping? Answer: Most
often, customer owned underground piping is found
serving gas appliances outside of the structure (i.e.
pool boilers, shops).
Typically, but not always, the
easiest way to identify customer owned underground
piping is to go to your meter and look at the downstream
piping (the piping going from the meter to your structure).
If there is a tee in the piping and the line coming
out of the tee is steel or iron and runs downward
and into the ground, you most likely have customer
owned underground piping. If the underground piping
is plastic it is not subject to the same requirements
as steel and iron pipe.
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Question: What
do I do if I have customer owned underground piping?
Answer: You
need to protect if from corroding or deteriorating
which, if it should occur, could cause a leak in
the line and possibly an incident. To obtain help
in protecting your customer owned underground piping
from corrosion, please call your local plumber.
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