Gas Line Repair in Harvey, LA
With 29% of households on the main and under 1% on a tank, Harvey has no single answer to who owns the pipe. It depends which of the two you are.
Read this first
Mains gas heats 29% of homes in Harvey and tank gas another under 1%. 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 Harvey is supplied
Where both are common, so is the assumption that they work the same way. They do not: on mains, part of the system is somebody else’s responsibility; on propane, none of it is.
| Households in Harvey | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 29% |
| Bottled or tank propane | under 1% |
| Electricity | 70% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 0% |
| Wood and everything else | under 1% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 14,751 occupied housing units. B25040 is a fuel count, not an infrastructure count. It tells you what burns in these houses, from which the arrangement follows — but it is an inference, not a meter reading. Service line definition: 49 CFR § 192.3, via PHMSA interpretation PI-12-0003.
Across Louisiana as a whole, 35% of households are on mains gas and 1% on tank propane. Harvey sits 6 points below the state on mains and about level with it on propane. That is the gap a statewide number papers over, and the reason the figures above are this town’s rather than the state’s.
Before anyone digs on the property
8-1-1 is free and nationwide, and PHMSA gives callers a 99 percent chance of avoiding an incident, injury or worse. Ask them what they will and will not mark: privately owned buried lines on your own side of the meter frequently are not covered.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
What to ask whoever quotes it
Ask how the work will be tested and what happens at the end of it. An inspection on gas work is normal rather than a complication, and a contractor who treats it as one is telling you something.
Other Louisiana towns we route in
- Broussard 18% mains gas · 1% tank propane
- Saint Bernard 41% mains gas · 0% tank propane
- Slidell 32% mains gas · 1% tank propane
- Saint Martinville 17% mains gas · 1% tank propane
- Destrehan 51% mains gas · under 1% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Louisiana
Louisiana licenses are issued by the State Plumbing Board of Louisiana, 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 Harvey calls us about.
Call (888) 752-8038