Gas Line Repair in Waimanalo, HI
Gas reaches 5% of households in Waimanalo. Where it is present it works the same way as anywhere; there is simply much less of it here than in most of the country.
Read this first
In Waimanalo, gas heats 5% of households and electricity heats most of the rest. A property with gas there is likelier to have a tank than a utility connection, so there is often no meter boundary in the picture at all.
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 Waimanalo is supplied
With gas this uncommon locally, the useful question is which arrangement you have rather than what the town does. A mains connection has a meter and a federal boundary; a tank has neither.
| Households in Waimanalo | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 3% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 2% |
| Electricity | 47% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 0% |
| Wood and everything else | 47% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 2,508 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 Hawaii as a whole, 3% of households are on mains gas and 1% on tank propane. Waimanalo sits about level with the state on mains and about level with it on propane. The state number would tell you something true about the state and very little about here, which is why it is not the number above.
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 Hawaii towns we route in
- Mililani 1% mains gas · 1% tank propane
- Waikoloa 1% mains gas · 0% tank propane
- Wahiawa 3% mains gas · 1% tank propane
- Pearl City 2% mains gas · under 1% tank propane
- Kahuku 0% mains gas · 1% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Hawaii
Hawaii licenses are issued by the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Professional and Vocational Licensing, 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 Waimanalo requests are covered by the same line.
Call (888) 752-8038