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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This has happened to two people I know, one in Montana ($25k repair) and one in Massachusetts ($15k repair).

[b]I think it’s pretty universal that homeowners are responsible for the pipes out to the main.[/b]

Typically home equity is where they get the funds to cover it if they don’t have a solid savings account.

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Pipes from your house under your yard, I understand being the responsibility of the home owner.

It's the part about them being responsible for repairs that are located under a city or county street that I don't understand. I just always thought if a street needs to be broken up and dug down into, that the city or county handles that.  I think that would make the most sense for them to come through one time, when they maybe are repairing something else, and just put in new connections to the homeowner's laterals from the main. Doesn't that make more sense financially - to do it all at once on a street, replace all the pipes, and then fill the road back in and pave it.

It just doesn't make sense for each individual person on a street block - say the block has 40 houses on it - as each set of individual connections from the main to the lateral starts to rust out (and they were probably put in almost 90 years ago) that each individual house... 40 of them -- individually digs up just their portion of the street and gets the repair, and then paves over in a patchwork fashion.[/quote]

I always assumed most houses were like mine where we each had a water main access near the sidewalk. That's where the water company would shut off your water if there was an issue and it doesn't impact your neighbors. For my repair, the water main is near my mailbox. So yard - sidewalk - strip of grass/mailbox - road. Our water main was on that strip of grass, next to the mailbox. We definitely own that strip. I haven't seen any roads that need to be torn up when neighbors do the repairs, but plenty of driveways.[/quote]

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