Taylorsville, UT Water Use Rules: Leak Reporting Duty (2026)

The 48-hour cure period sits inside the Land Development Code's definition of 'Waste Of Water' in § 13.36.240, but it functions as the city's operative leak-repair standard: subsection B specifically addresses 'the excessive use, loss, or escape of water through breaks, leaks, or malfunctions in the water user's plumbing,' and treats any such loss continuing after it 'should reasonably have been discovered and corrected' as counting against the property owner once the 48-hour presumption period has run. The clock starts at whichever comes first: the moment the water user actually discovers the break, leak, or malfunction, or the moment the City gives notice of the condition.

The same definition sweeps in two other categories of waste that landowners should know about. Subsection A covers any use of water, including landscape irrigation, that 'consumes or for which is applied substantial amounts of excess water beyond the reasonable amount required by the use,' whether it evaporates, percolates underground, enters the sewer system, or runs into the gutter or street, and makes every water consumer responsible for knowing 'the manner and extent of his water use and excess runoff.' Subsection C separately bans washing sidewalks, driveways, parking areas, tennis courts, patios, or other paved areas with water, except to address an immediate fire, health, or safety hazard.

Because the definition covers irrigation systems as well as household plumbing, an irrigation controller stuck running or a broken drip line in a yard is treated the same as a leaking indoor pipe for purposes of the 48-hour rule.