Arvada, CO Water Use Rules: Leak Reporting Duty (2026)

Under Sec. 102-76, maintenance of privately owned service lines, fittings, pressure reducing valves, meter pits, fixtures, and water-using appliances is the user's sole responsibility, and the city is not liable for damage from pressure changes or flow stoppage. The city draws the repair line differently depending on the connection: where a curb stop exists, the department of utilities repairs the segment between the water main and the outlet side of the curb stop, and the user repairs everything past the curb stop threads; where there is an outdoor meter with no curb stop, the city repairs up through the meter-attaching coupling and the user repairs from the meter yoke outward, including maintaining the meter pit; where there is neither a curb stop nor outdoor meter, city repair is limited to the segment outside the user's property line or within a recorded easement.

If a user does not promptly repair a leak on their side, the city may make the repair itself and recover its actual cost from the user or owner under Sec. 102-41, which makes unpaid utility charges a lien on the property. Where a shared service line serving multiple metered users develops a leak between the meters and the main, all users on that connection are jointly and severally responsible for the repair cost. Sec. 00, waivable by the director of utilities for extenuating circumstances.

Water lost through a broken service line caused by excavation or demolition, rather than normal wear, is billed to the user at the lost water rate under Sec. 102-179.