Read the pattern
Gather the SPU service record, union and meter setting, building entry, legal address, route evidence, property plan, prior repair, material, leak location, slope, and surface constraints.
Decision terrace 10
Move from evidence to a bounded authorization
Hold the safety line
Do not excavate from an assumed straight line or use a city control. Utilities, unsupported soil, retaining features, traffic, and water-filled work areas need controlled planning.
Place the Seattle boundary
SPU says the owner installs and maintains the private water line from the city union to the building. New, replaced, or repaired outside piping needs required SPU inspection before cover.
Write the visit
Define endpoints, material and size, trench route, cover, slope transitions, backflow, shutoff, public coordination, inspection, pressure test, backfill, paving, landscape, and as-built documentation.
Keep the closing evidence
Collect the inspection report, photographs before cover, material record, measured route, test, restored service condition, surface status, and a map useful to later owners.
Current public source