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How to Shut Off Your Water

In emergency as well as non-emergency situations, knowing where and how to shut off your home’s water supply is as important as knowing how and where to turn-off or reset an electric breaker. Situations in which you may need to shut off your water include everything from reacting quickly to minimize damage caused by a burst pipe to a scheduled replacement of a water heater or repair of a sprinkler system.

Fixture Shutoff Valves & Isolation Valves

For localized water shut offs, turning off your water to the affected appliance should be your initial action. Water lines to faucets and toilets usually have a small valve with a small twist handle or knob which controls the water flow to individual plumbing fixtures. Larger appliances, such as water heaters and washing machines typically have these isolation valves as well. It’s a good idea to get in the habit of testing them periodically to be sure they are working properly – to do so, once you turn off the valve, open up your hot and cold lines (if applicable) to release pressure and test if the water is indeed off.

Interior Fixture Shutoff Valves: Sink, Toilet, Washing Machine

Exterior Shutoff Valve: Customer- versus Utility-Owned

If no interior shutoff valve exists to remedy the situation, locate your customer-owned shutoff valve. This most likely is at the meter box which will be near the end of your property line, near the street in a covered box underground. It will be on the side of the meter closest to your home, with a knob or a ball valve handle requiring a quarter turn to shut off or turn on water. If no customer-owned shutoff valve exists, you must install one, it is a requirement.

There will be a valve next to the meter, but this is the utility-owned shutoff valve and may only be used by an LMUD employee. It is illegal to tamper with, obstruct access to, or remove a water meter, including the utility-owned shutoff valve. If the meter is damaged, the property owner will be responsible for all costs to repair or replace it plus a fine.

Water meter with a twist handle (or knob) valve customer-side shutoff.

 

 

Illustration of a water meter with a customer-side ball valve water shutoff. Image courtesy Springfield Utility Board.

 

Your Customer Shut off may or may not be located in the same box as your water meter.

Pressure Regulator Valve

We recommend that property owners never try to adjust their own pressure regulator valve (PRV) which may be located just above the customer-owned shutoff valve outside of the meter box. This valve brings down the pressure to a safe level before the water reaches any plumbing fixtures inside the home and if adjusted incorrectly, can cause major plumbing issues. Only a licensed plumber should adjust your water pressure. LMUD does not adjust the PRV.

Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey

Threads on screws, nuts, and bolts all go the same direction, so to loosen or tighten gate (or wheel) valves, it’s universal with which way you turn them. It’s easiest to remember by following the old adage: “righty tighty, lefty loosey”: to tighten or turn off, you turn to the right (clockwise); to loosen or turn on, you turn toward the left (counter clockwise).

For ball valves, when the handle is perpendicular to the pipe, the water is shut off. When the handle is parallel to the pipe, the water is turned on.

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