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Gas Line Repair in Pascoag, RI
With 9% of households on the main and 8% on a tank, Pascoag has no single answer to who owns the pipe. It depends which of the two you are.
Read this first
Mains gas heats 9% of homes in Pascoag and tank gas another 8%. The difference matters more than the fault does at first, because only one of the two has a meter outlet where the utility's responsibility stops.
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 Pascoag is supplied
Mains and tank gas differ in ownership, in who to call, and in how the gas behaves if it escapes — propane is heavier than air and collects low rather than rising.
What they do not differ in is the emergency response, which is the same for both and is the first thing on every page of this site.
| Households in Pascoag | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 9% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 8% |
| Electricity | 8% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 67% |
| Wood and everything else | 9% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 2,273 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 Rhode Island as a whole, 56% of households are on mains gas and 4% on tank propane. Pascoag sits 47 points below the state on mains and 3 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
Excavation damage remains the leading cause of pipeline incidents according to PHMSA. That is not a fact about pipelines so much as a fact about gardening, and the prevention is one free call to 8-1-1 before the first spade goes in.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
What to ask whoever quotes it
Ask how the work will be tested and what happens at the end of it. An inspection on gas work is normal rather than a complication, and a contractor who treats it as one is telling you something.
Other Rhode Island towns we route in
- North Kingstown 54% mains gas · 8% tank propane
- Jamestown 7% mains gas · 19% tank propane
- Wyoming 3% mains gas · 16% tank propane
- Smithfield 49% mains gas · 5% tank propane
- Albion 78% mains gas · 0% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Rhode Island
Rhode Island licenses are issued by the Rhode Island Division of Professional Regulation, Department of Labor and Training, 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. Non-emergency work in Pascoag goes through this number as well.
Call (888) 752-8038