Gas Line Repair in Calhan, CO
Tank propane heats 70% of homes in Calhan. There is no service line here in the federal sense, which sounds like a technicality and is actually the whole difference.
Read this first
Tank gas serves 70% of households in Calhan. With no utility main and no meter, the boundary that matters on mains gas does not exist here, and the tank, regulator and buried line are the owner's or the supplier's under 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 Calhan 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 Calhan | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 5% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 70% |
| Electricity | 15% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | under 1% |
| Wood and everything else | 10% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 2,497 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 Colorado as a whole, 68% of households are on mains gas and 3% on tank propane. Calhan sits 64 points below the state on mains and 67 points above it on propane. A state figure would flatten exactly that difference, which is the reason these pages are built town by town instead.
Before anyone digs on the property
The single most dangerous thing most people will ever do to a gas line is put a spade through it. PHMSA calls excavation damage the leading cause of pipeline incidents; 8-1-1 is a nationwide toll-free number to call before any excavation, and calling it gives a 99 percent chance of avoiding an incident.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
What to ask whoever quotes it
Ask which side of the meter the work is on before anything else. On the utility side it may not be a contractor job at all, and a quote that has not established that has not established whose problem it is.
Other Colorado towns we route in
- Manitou Springs 65% mains gas · 8% tank propane
- Pierce 63% mains gas · 20% tank propane
- Twin Lakes 24% mains gas · 44% tank propane
- Elbert 19% mains gas · 66% tank propane
- Avon 39% mains gas · 5% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Colorado
Colorado licenses are issued by the Colorado State Plumbing Board, Division of Professions and Occupations, 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. Gas is one part of what Calhan calls us about.
Call (888) 752-8038