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Gas Line Repair in Bennington, NH
23% of households in Bennington heat with bottled or tank propane. On propane there is no utility service line and no meter boundary — the tank, the regulator and the buried run to the house are all the property owner’s.
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23% of households in Bennington use bottled or tank gas, which puts the supply on the property rather than under the street. There is no utility service line and no meter boundary: the tank, the regulator and the line to the house belong to the owner or the gas supplier by contract.
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 Bennington is supplied
On tank propane there is no service line in the federal sense and no meter boundary. The tank, the regulator and the buried run to the house form one installation, and it belongs to the property owner.
The supplier’s role comes from your contract with them rather than from a tariff, so what they will and will not attend to is a question about that agreement.
| Households in Bennington | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 4% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 23% |
| Electricity | 9% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 47% |
| Wood and everything else | 16% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 660 occupied housing units. B25040 records what heats the house, which is the best available guide to whether a property has mains gas or a tank — it does not count service lines directly. Service line definition: 49 CFR § 192.3, via PHMSA interpretation PI-12-0003.
Across New Hampshire as a whole, 25% of households are on mains gas and 17% on tank propane. Bennington sits 21 points below the state on mains and about level with it on propane. Averages are where this kind of difference disappears. The figures on this page are the town’s own for that reason.
Before anyone digs on the property
Digging is the risk, not age or material. PHMSA names excavation damage as the leading cause of pipeline incidents and puts a caller’s chance of avoiding one at 99 percent. 8-1-1 is nationwide, toll-free, and costs nothing.
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 New Hampshire towns we route in
- Wilmot 2% mains gas · 39% tank propane
- Center Barnstead under 1% mains gas · 23% tank propane
- Hillsborough 1% mains gas · 25% tank propane
- Durham 20% mains gas · 14% tank propane
- Contoocook under 1% mains gas · 21% tank propane
Checking a plumber in New Hampshire
The authority is the New Hampshire Office of Professional Licensure and Certification, Mechanical Safety and Licensing Board. New Hampshire licenses plumbers but publishes no online licensee search, so verification means contacting the office directly.
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. Other Bennington requests are covered by the same line.
Call (888) 752-8038