Gas Line Repair in Streamwood, IL
Gas arrives by pipe for 90% of homes in Streamwood. The part of it you can see is the meter; the part that goes wrong most expensively is the part you cannot.
Read this first
A buried service line and a meter sit on most properties in Streamwood, where 90% of homes are on mains gas. Federal rules end the utility's service line at the meter outlet, so everything downstream of the meter is the owner's to maintain and repair.
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 Streamwood is supplied
On a mains connection there are two systems, not one, and the meter divides them. The federal definition puts the end of the regulated service line at the meter outlet; local code governs everything beyond it.
Practically, that means part of the problem may not be yours at all — and part of it certainly is.
| Households in Streamwood | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 90% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 1% |
| Electricity | 9% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | under 1% |
| Wood and everything else | under 1% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 13,030 occupied housing units. Read it as fuel rather than as plumbing. The share on utility gas is how many houses burn it, which is the nearest thing published to how many have a service line. Service line definition: 49 CFR § 192.3, via PHMSA interpretation PI-12-0003.
Across Illinois as a whole, 82% of households are on mains gas and 2% on tank propane. Streamwood sits 8 points above the state on mains and 1 point below it on propane. That spread is what a state average hides, and it is why this page carries the town’s own figures rather than inheriting them.
Before anyone digs on the property
PHMSA describes excavation damage as the leading cause of pipeline incidents, and puts the effect of one free phone call plainly: someone who calls 8-1-1 before they dig has a 99 percent chance of avoiding an incident, injury, harm to the environment and even death.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
What to ask whoever quotes it
If any part of the job is in the ground, ask when they are calling 8-1-1 and whether a private line may be in the way. Both answers should come before the excavation, not during it.
Other Illinois towns we route in
- Aurora 83% mains gas · 1% tank propane
- Calumet City 81% mains gas · 1% tank propane
- Berkeley 97% mains gas · 0% tank propane
- Vergennes 32% mains gas · 30% tank propane
- Winfield 97% mains gas · under 1% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Illinois
Illinois licenses are issued by the Illinois Department of Public Health, Plumbing Program, 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 Streamwood calls us about.
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