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Gas Line Repair in Mount Hood Parkdale, OR
Mount Hood Parkdale is largely a town without gas: 13% of households use it at all. That makes the buried service line a minority arrangement, and the people who have one worth talking to specifically.
Read this first
Only 13% of homes in Mount Hood Parkdale 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 Mount Hood Parkdale 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 Mount Hood Parkdale | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 3% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 11% |
| Electricity | 58% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 2% |
| Wood and everything else | 26% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 1,220 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 Oregon as a whole, 44% of households are on mains gas and 2% on tank propane. Mount Hood Parkdale sits 41 points below the state on mains and 9 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
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 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 Oregon towns we route in
- Lake Oswego 57% mains gas · 1% tank propane
- Brightwood 1% mains gas · 12% tank propane
- Molalla 37% mains gas · 3% tank propane
- Jefferson 30% mains gas · 3% tank propane
- Shedd 8% mains gas · 16% 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. Any Mount Hood Parkdale job, gas or otherwise, is routed from here.
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