Water Line Repair in Delaware
Water Line Repair across Delaware: the 96 ZIP codes and 57 cities we route calls in, and who licenses plumbers in the state.
Free to homeowners in Delaware — the contractor pays us for the introduction, you never do.
Where your responsibility starts
Our water line repair coverage in Delaware runs to 96 ZIP codes in 57 cities. Where many small utilities serve the covered places, that boundary is set by each one of them, and a homeowner can be responsible from the main in one town and from the meter in the next.
Source: coverage area as published by our call partner; place and county names from the US Census Bureau.
We route water line repair calls in 96 ZIP codes across 57 Delaware cities, in 3 counties.
What this site is
WaterMainCall is a referral service, not a contractor. We connect homeowners with independent contractors. Contractors are required to hold whatever credential their state or municipality demands, and work on a service line is normally permitted and often coordinated with the utility — ask to see the permit. We carry out no work, we test no water, we do not set prices, and we never charge homeowners anything. Nothing here is a statement about the water at any address.Checking a credential in Delaware
Delaware licenses are issued by the Delaware Board of Plumbing, Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Examiners, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.
Every Delaware county we cover
- Kent County 20 ZIP codes
Dover, Camden Wyoming, Cheswold, Clayton, Dover AFB, Felton, Frederica, Harrington, Hartly and 7 more - New Castle County 51 ZIP codes
Wilmington, Newark, New Castle, Bear, Claymont, Delaware City, Hockessin, Middletown, Montchanin and 7 more - Sussex County 22 ZIP codes
Bethany Beach, Bethel, Bridgeville, Dagsboro, Delmar, Ellendale, Fenwick Island, Frankford, Georgetown and 13 more
What that coverage looks like
Our Delaware footprint is 96 ZIP codes in 3 counties, and New Castle County is the largest single part of it at 51. Every one of those counties contains more than one water supplier, and the line between the utility's pipe and yours is drawn by whichever one serves your meter.
How a water line repair job goes
A service line repair starts with a question of ownership. The utility is responsible up to a point written into its own policy — usually the main, the curb stop or the meter — and the homeowner from there. Finding the leak is one job; establishing which side of that line it is on is what decides who pays, and it is worth settling before the excavator arrives.
What the call asks about water line repair
- Where the water is surfacing, and whether it is between the meter and the house or on the street side.
- Whether the meter is in a pit at the boundary or on the wall of the house.
- Whether the utility has already been out and said whose side it is on.
Every Delaware city we route in
29 cities, ordered by the share of homes their owners live in. The older and denser the street, the older the service line running under it. Each page carries that city’s own numbers and the ZIP codes we route there.
- Dagsboro 92%
- Ocean View 91%
- Milton 90%
- Magnolia 90%
- Townsend 89%
- Clayton 89%
- Rehoboth Beach 88%
- Selbyville 88%
- Frankford 88%
- Felton 87%
- Middletown 86%
- Hockessin 86%
- Smyrna 83%
- Lewes 83%
- Camden Wyoming 82%
- Millsboro 82%
- Bear 80%
- Bridgeville 78%
- Harrington 75%
- Greenwood 74%
- Seaford 73%
- Georgetown 68%
- New Castle 67%
- Laurel 66%
- Wilmington 65%
- Milford 63%
- Newark 63%
- Dover 58%
- Claymont 53%
Before you call
Which side of that line a leak is on decides who pays for it. The pages above say how to find out before the digging starts.
