Gas Line Repair in Gaston, OR
In Gaston, 10% of homes use gas of any sort. Most properties here have no service line and no meter, and the ones that do are the exception.
Read this first
Only 10% of homes in Gaston use gas for heat. That makes a gas line the exception rather than the rule, and the ones that exist are usually tank supplies owned on the property instead of utility service lines ending at a meter.
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 Gaston is supplied
Low local gas use does not make a buried line safer or a leak less serious. It makes the subject less familiar, which is a different problem and arguably a worse one.
The emergency response does not vary at all: leave on foot, no phones or switches inside, call 911 from elsewhere.
| Households in Gaston | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 4% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 6% |
| Electricity | 62% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 3% |
| Wood and everything else | 25% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 1,734 occupied housing units. B25040 records what heats the house, which is the best available guide to whether a property has mains gas or a tank — it does not count service lines directly. Service line definition: 49 CFR § 192.3, via PHMSA interpretation PI-12-0003.
Across Oregon as a whole, 44% of households are on mains gas and 2% on tank propane. Gaston sits 40 points below the state on mains and about level with it on propane. That spread is what a state average hides, and it is why this page carries the town’s own figures rather than inheriting them.
Before anyone digs on the property
Before any digging — a fence post as much as a foundation — call 8-1-1. It is a nationwide toll-free number, it costs nothing, and PHMSA puts the chance of avoiding an incident afterwards at 99 percent.
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 Oregon towns we route in
- Turner 34% mains gas · 4% tank propane
- Molalla 37% mains gas · 3% tank propane
- Dufur 1% mains gas · 8% tank propane
- Dayton 2% mains gas · 6% tank propane
- Gales Creek 6% mains gas · 19% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Oregon
Oregon licenses are issued by the Oregon Building Codes Division, Department of Consumer and Business Services, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins. Plumbing businesses in Oregon must also hold a Construction Contractors Board license, which is a separate search.
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. Non-emergency work in Gaston goes through this number as well.
Call (888) 752-8038