The Department reserves the right to determine the size and kind of service line from the main to the curb stop, and from the curb stop or meter pit to the property to be serviced. The curb stop and meter box shall be placed inside the curbline. For services larger than two inches in diameter, ductile-cement-lined pipe meeting AWWA Standards for Class 52 water pipe shall be used. The pipe from the curb stop and meter pit to the property shall be laid in a straight line at right angles to the curbline, within the building limits of the structure to be served, and shall have a minimum depth of 42 inches and a maximum depth of 48 inches when final grading of the property has been completed.
No service pipe shall be laid in the same trench with gas pipe, drain sewer pipe, or any other facility of any public service company, nor within three feet of any open excavation, vault, cesspool or septic tank; nor shall the location be in conflict with any sidewalk or driveway. All services shall comply with the rules and regulations of the Department of Environmental Protection dated June 1994, or the latest revision.
All connections, service lines and fixtures furnished by the applicant shall be maintained by the customer in good order, and all valves, meters and appliances furnished and owned by the Department, and on the property of the customer, shall be protected properly and cared for by the customer. All leaks in the service and any other pipe and any fixture in or upon the premises must be immediately repaired by the owner or occupant of the premises. The customer shall be responsible for notifying the Department of the party engaged by said customer to do any maintenance work on the customer's service line, prior to work being commenced, and said party shall not backfill any trench until the work has been inspected and approved by the Department's representative. Any work not acceptable shall be immediately removed and replaced by work that is acceptable.
The Department shall in no event be responsible for maintaining any portion of the service line owned by the customer, or for damage done by water escaping therefrom: or from lines or fixtures on the customer's property; and the customers shall at all times comply with applicable regulations with respect thereto, and make changes therein, required by reason of change or grade, relocation of mains or otherwise.
A service line from the curb stop, a meter pit, to a property shall not supply more than one property, as generally described and classified below; but any such property, upon proper application of the owner, may be supplied by two or more meters, each of which, for billing purposes, shall be considered as being one customer account, and provided that the supply to each such meter has an individual control at or near the curb, viz:
A. A dwelling house; either detached, or one side of a double house, or a house in a row of houses; provided that a garage, a conservatory and similar structures accessory to the life of one family shall be considered as a portion of the dwelling.
B. An industrial or commercial or manufacturing establishment.
C. A building separated from adjacent buildings by a party wall or party walls and comprising apartments or store or offices or any combination thereof.
D. A detached building comprising apartments or stores or offices or any combination thereof.
Where two or more customers are supplied through a single service line as of July 1994, said service shall be permitted to continue in operation, but may not be expanded.