Gas Line Repair in Canon, GA
About 10% of homes in Canon are on mains gas and 15% on propane. The split matters because a meter is a legal boundary and a propane tank is not.
Read this first
In Canon, 10% of homes are on mains gas and 15% on bottled, so the town average settles nothing about any one address. Mains gas ends the utility's regulated line at the meter outlet; a tank supply has no such boundary.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey table B25040; the service line boundary is 49 CFR § 192.3.
If you smell gas right now
Leave the building on foot. Do not use a phone or a light switch inside. Call 911 and your gas utility from somewhere else, and do not call us — we are a referral service, not an emergency line. The full list, in order.
How Canon is supplied
In a town with both, the useful page is the one about the arrangement you actually have. The meter is the tell: if there is one, there is a service line behind it and a boundary at its outlet.
| Households in Canon | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 10% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 15% |
| Electricity | 70% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 1% |
| Wood and everything else | 4% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 1,615 occupied housing units. B25040 is a fuel count, not an infrastructure count. It tells you what burns in these houses, from which the arrangement follows — but it is an inference, not a meter reading. Service line definition: 49 CFR § 192.3, via PHMSA interpretation PI-12-0003.
Across Georgia as a whole, 51% of households are on mains gas and 3% on tank propane. Canon sits 41 points below the state on mains and 12 points above it on propane. That distance from the state average is the whole argument for publishing a town figure at all.
Before anyone digs on the property
One free call before any excavation. PHMSA is blunt about why: excavation damage is the leading cause of pipeline incidents, and 8-1-1 raises the odds of avoiding one to 99 in 100. It applies to a fence post as much as a foundation.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
What to ask whoever quotes it
Ask what is being left behind: where the new pipe runs, at what depth, and whether you will get a photograph of the trench before it is filled. That record will not exist anywhere else and you will want it eventually.
Other Georgia towns we route in
- Statham 20% mains gas · 2% tank propane
- Augusta 41% mains gas · 2% tank propane
- Thomasville 12% mains gas · 2% tank propane
- Cairo 9% mains gas · 5% tank propane
- Cumming 70% mains gas · 3% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Georgia
Georgia licenses are issued by the Georgia Secretary of State, Division of Master and Journeyman Plumbers, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.
Gas work is separately permitted and separately licensed in most jurisdictions, so ask specifically about gas rather than plumbing in general.
For repair work, not for a suspected leak.If you can smell gas, leave and call 911 or your utility from outside; this is the wrong number for that. For everything else — a line, a meter, an appliance connection — we will route you to a contractor covering your area, free of charge to you. Gas is one part of what Canon calls us about.
Call (888) 752-8038