Beat the Freeze: Protect Your Pipes!
Harris County WCID is responsible for the fresh water line which ends at a property’s water meter; the property owner is responsible for the fresh water line to the house, which typically runs up the side of an outside wall before entering the house, and may include a connection to an in-ground sprinkler system. During unusually cold weather, generally temperatures which remain below freezing for a number of hours (a “hard freeze”), the water in the above-ground portion of the property’s water line and sprinkler system-connection can freeze, resulting in costly damage [including a burst backflow preventer]. The following You Tube video is intended to inform the District’s customers as to how to prepare their exterior water connections in order to avoid damage from a hard freeze.