Inside the town limits, everything you flush runs through Town sewer lines and pump stations to the Basham Simms plant on South 20th Street, and the Town’s lateral policy draws a line across your yard. From the property line out to the main is the Town’s to keep up; from the property line back into the house is yours. On an older line with no cleanout, the Town installs one at the property line, so there’s a clear place to tell whose side a clog is on.
That line is where a sewer camera inspection earns its keep. If the plumber shows the blockage is in the Town’s section and puts it in writing, the Town’s policy is to repair it, clean up your premises and reimburse what the plumber charged to find it. A camera run added to a visit is $89. The same policy charges the owner for a Town-side blockage caused by what went down the drain, and the Town’s list of things that don’t belong in its pipes starts with wipes, flushable ones included.
Water comes in split the same way, at the meter. The Town owns the meter and the line up to it, and asks residents to leave the meter crock closed; past it, the pipe is yours. Its 2025 report says every service line in the system has been identified and none of them is lead.
Past the town limits, the rest of 20132, which holds more homes than the town itself, is mostly well and septic, and the Town’s plan expects it to stay that way. Loudoun County’s ordinance calls for the septic tank to be pumped at least every five years by a cleaner its Health Department licenses. The pipe from the house to the tank is ordinary drain line, and when the lowest drain gurgles, a camera shows whether that pipe or a full tank is the trouble. The well and its pump are a well company’s job; from the pressure tank on into the house, it’s plumbing like anywhere else.