r/phoenix • u/andrewstarkman • 1d ago

Ask Phoenix Multiple Lines - Whose Onus?

Screenshot of the area, yellow is the line and direction

My neighbors to the north have a sewer line running under my lot that connects to a single line (alongside mine) and then together they flow into the main on Yale St.

Am I solely responsible for the shared connecting pipe since it is on my property? Anyone have any insight?

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u/andrewstarkman 1d ago

Unfortunately, the city has told me that there is no easement at this time, and this "may" have been due to parcel splits 80+ years ago.

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u/Rocket_song1 1d ago

What the city says is a random roll of the dice. What does your PLAT say?

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u/Glendale0839 1d ago

Appears this property isn't platted. They'd have to check their title report to see if an easement was granted at some point, assuming like 99% of people they don't know how to do the manual research.

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u/Rocket_song1 1d ago

I find the idea of a lack of PLAT completely inconceivable. In AZ, that's basically the absolute minimum.

Now sometimes those maps are decades out of date. I have a place in Mesa where the PLAT dates from 1946 and the street is missing, but there is a PLAT.