Water Line Repair and Replacement in Jupiter, FL

A soggy patch of lawn with no rain, a meter that keeps moving after you close the main at the house, or a sudden drop in pressure are the usual signs of a leak in the service line. That is the pipe that carries water from the meter to the house.

It is a different job from a leak inside the house. The line may run underground for fifty feet or more, under grass, driveway, or landscaping.

Water line repair and replacement covers the service line on the property, from the meter or curb stop to the house. A plumber locates the leak, then repairs a short section or replaces the whole run. Methods include digging a trench, boring under a driveway, or pulling a new line through the old path.

The pipe may be copper, polyethylene, PVC, or galvanized steel depending on age. Replacement usually uses polyethylene or copper, installed to the Florida Building Code, Plumbing, which is based on the International Plumbing Code (IPC).

The Town of Jupiter Utilities Department delivers water to a service area with more than 30,000 connections and about 94,000 residents. As part of the EPA's Lead and Copper Rule revisions, it completed a service line inventory and reports that the system is lead free. It publishes an interactive map and says homes built after 1976 are highly unlikely to have a lead service line.

That is useful context, but it covers the Town's inventory of lines to the meter. The line on your property is still your responsibility, and its age and material vary. A galvanized line that is 40 years old behaves very differently from a newer polyethylene one.

Tequesta runs its own village water system, so a leak on the street side there is a call to the village. In Jupiter Farms there is usually no service line at all, because most homes use private wells.

Water line repair and replacement cover 33458, 33469, 33477, and 33478 in Jupiter, Juno Beach (33408), Palm Beach Gardens (33410 and 33418), and Hobe Sound (33455).

In Hobe Sound, FL 33455 the utility is South Martin Regional Utility, which handles the street side.

Tequesta Park, also known as Kiwanis Recreation Park, holds the village's water wells, and the village runs its own water utility. The village owns the street side and the meter, and the line after the meter is a plumbing job.

In Jupiter proper the Town of Jupiter Utilities Department supplies water. In Jupiter Farms most homes use private wells instead, so the line to the house starts at a pressure tank and not at a meter.

If the meter test points inside the house, meter and pressure testing finds the leak. A failed line that has let go falls under pipe failure repair. Older homes with failing pipes throughout may need repiping.