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Gas Line Repair in Delaware City, DE
Neither arrangement dominates Delaware City: 40% mains gas, 3% tank propane. This page applies to both, and the difference between them is the first thing to establish.
Read this first
Mains gas heats 40% of homes in Delaware City and tank gas another 3%. 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 Delaware City is supplied
In a town with both, the useful page is the one about the arrangement you actually have. The meter is the tell: if there is one, there is a service line behind it and a boundary at its outlet.
| Households in Delaware City | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 40% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 3% |
| Electricity | 21% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 31% |
| Wood and everything else | 4% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 734 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 Delaware as a whole, 42% of households are on mains gas and 9% on tank propane. Delaware City sits 6 points below the state on propane; its mains share carries too wide a margin of error to compare. 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 whether the job needs a permit and who is pulling it. Gas work is separately permitted in most jurisdictions and the answer should not be you.
Other Delaware towns we route in
- Fenwick Island 3% mains gas · 13% tank propane
- Smyrna 60% mains gas · 9% tank propane
- Rehoboth Beach 21% mains gas · 26% tank propane
- Middletown 67% mains gas · 6% tank propane
- Frankford 7% mains gas · 22% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Delaware
Delaware licenses are issued by the Delaware Board of Plumbing, Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Examiners, 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 Delaware City requests are covered by the same line.
Call (888) 752-8038