Laterals
A sewer service lateral is a pipe that takes an individual building's wastewater to the public sewer main in the street. Laterals are typically privately owned and maintained. The following brochure in pdf format contains excellent information about sewer service laterals: what they are, differences between upper and lower laterals, who maintains them and how they contribute to wastewater collection and treatment issues.
Please click here for the 
Bay Area Clean Water Agencies (BACWA) Sewer Service Laterals Brochure(429 Kb) .
Doing some work on your sewer lateral? Please contact us. Click here to download the Lateral Permit Form in Adobe Acrobat PDF format (93 Kb)
If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can download it for free here:
