By Minneapolis Field Notes · April 22, 2025
Lead service lines on older Minneapolis blocks
Categories: Leaks & repipe
Older Minneapolis blocks still have lead services. The city runs a replacement program. That is not a repipe of your kitchen. The service is the line from the main to the meter. House-side galvanized and the meter setter are a different scope.
We tell you which side of the meter we are on. We do not sell you a city program as a private job. If your kitchen tap is still galvanized after the city swapped the service, that is our repipe conversation.
Northeast, North Minneapolis, and parts of Longfellow see this weekly. St. Paul has its own program and its own desk. Minneapolis plumbing permits.
Brown hot-only water after a main break downtown is often the heater dip tube or remaining galvanized, not the new copper service. Brown water and water heater repair.
leak detection if the meter spins. Minneapolis plumber to dispatch. We will not open a boulevard for a city-owned service.
Minneapolis, Northeast, Minneapolis plumbing cost guide.
Questions from this kind of call
Do you replace the lead service?
The city program owns that stretch. We do house-side piping.
Should I filter?
That is a water-quality question. We will tell you what metal is still in the house.