Gas Line Repair in Centerville, UT
Gas arrives by pipe for 89% of homes in Centerville. 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
Responsibility changes hands at the meter outlet. The line under the ground between the street and the meter is the utility's up to that point, and the yard line and house piping after it are the property owner's. 89% of homes in Centerville heat with utility gas.
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 Centerville is supplied
The meter is doing two jobs: measuring gas, and marking where the federally regulated line stops. The second is the one that matters when something fails.
Buried customer piping past the meter — out to a garage, a grill, a generator — is the owner’s, and it is easy to forget it exists until somebody digs.
| Households in Centerville | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 89% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 2% |
| Electricity | 9% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 0% |
| Wood and everything else | under 1% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 5,689 occupied housing units. This is the heating-fuel table. It does not enumerate service lines, and no table does at this geography; what it gives is the best available indication of which arrangement a property is on. Service line definition: 49 CFR § 192.3, via PHMSA interpretation PI-12-0003.
Across Utah as a whole, 83% of households are on mains gas and 2% on tank propane. Centerville sits 6 points above the state on mains and about level with it on propane. That is the gap a statewide number papers over, and the reason the figures above are this town’s rather than the state’s.
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 how much gas work they actually do, not whether they can. Gas is separately licensed in most jurisdictions and plenty of capable plumbers do very little of it.
Other Utah towns we route in
- Sandy 86% mains gas · 1% tank propane
- Midvale 77% mains gas · 2% tank propane
- Bingham Canyon 87% mains gas · 0% tank propane
- Heber City 82% mains gas · 4% tank propane
- Lehi 84% mains gas · 2% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Utah
Utah licenses are issued by the Utah Division of Professional Licensing, Department of Commerce, 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. Other Centerville requests are covered by the same line.
Call (888) 752-8038