Gas Line Repair in Remsen, NY
In Remsen, 16% of homes run on tank propane rather than mains gas. That changes the answer to almost every question on this page, starting with who owns the pipe.
Read this first
Tank gas serves 16% of households in Remsen. 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 Remsen 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 Remsen | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 4% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 16% |
| Electricity | 6% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 47% |
| Wood and everything else | 26% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 1,412 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 New York as a whole, 61% of households are on mains gas and 3% on tank propane. Remsen sits 57 points below the state on mains and 13 points above it on propane. That distance from the state average is the whole argument for publishing a town figure at all.
Before anyone digs on the property
PHMSA describes excavation damage as the leading cause of pipeline incidents, and puts the effect of one free phone call plainly: someone who calls 8-1-1 before they dig has a 99 percent chance of avoiding an incident, injury, harm to the environment and even death.
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 New York towns we route in
- Bayport 51% mains gas · 2% tank propane
- Old Forge 5% mains gas · 53% tank propane
- Port Byron 30% mains gas · 24% tank propane
- Latham 73% mains gas · 3% tank propane
- Copiague 60% mains gas · 3% tank propane
Checking a plumber in New York
New York issues no state plumbing license. New York City licenses Master and Journeyman Plumbers through the Department of Buildings; elsewhere in the state it is your own city, town or county. Start here. Ask the contractor which municipality licenses them and confirm it with that office 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. Any Remsen job, gas or otherwise, is routed from here.
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