# Water Service Line in Denver, CO: Who Pays? | Who Pays the Repair?

> In Denver the property owner owns the entire water service line to the tap at the main, including under the street. Denver Water owns only the main. Cited to Denver Water’s homeowner-responsibility page.

**Who pays:** owner

Denver: the property owner owns the whole water service line, "owned by and installed at the expense of the property owner," all the way to the tap at the main under the street.

**Boundary:** Unusually broad: the property owner owns the entire water service line from the tap at Denver Water’s main all the way to the house, including the section running under the public street. Denver Water owns only the main itself.

**Property owner:** Denver Water: "The service line is owned by and installed at the expense of the property owner." The dividing point is "located where the property taps into the main."

**City / agency:** Denver Water owns and maintains the distribution mains up to the tap; everything from the tap to the home is the owner’s.

## Sources
- [Homeowner responsibility: water service line ownership](https://www.denverwater.org/residential/services-and-information/homeowner-responsibility) — "The dividing point between Denver Water-owned mains or distributor-owned mains and service lines that are the responsibility of the property owner is located where the property taps into the main, or the discharge side of the valve closest to the Denver Water-owned or distributor-owned main. ... The service line is owned by and installed at the expense of the property owner." (accessed 2026-09-27)
- [Services and information: residential](https://www.denverwater.org/residential/services-and-information) (accessed 2026-09-10)

_Last verified 2026-09-10. Source: Who Pays the Repair? — https://whopaystherepair.com/rules/denver-co-water-service-line/ — every claim checked against a primary source before publication (see /methodology/)._