Powder Springs, GA Sewer and Drain Service: Local Rules
Georgia Sewer cleans, inspects and repairs drains, sewer lines and water lines for homes in Powder Springs. Below: who to call first when sewage backs up, where your part of the line ends under the local provider's rules, and what we do about it.
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Powder Springs, GA at a glance
- County
- Cobb County
- Water and sewer
- Cobb County Water System
- Plumbing permits
- City of Powder Springs Community Development
Utility rules and numbers checked October 24, 2026
Whose pipe is it in Powder Springs?
The public sewer in Powder Springs is run by Cobb County Water System. The provider answers for its main and its part of the line; the line on your side is the property owner's, and that is the part we work on. More on how the line is split: who is responsible for your sewer line.
Cobb County Water System
Public sewer in Powder Springs
If sewage is backing up or overflowing
- Emergency response and dispatch (sewer backups, broken water lines)(770) 419-6201
Other number it lists
- Water System main line(770) 419-6200
Where your part of the line ends
You build and maintain the service line from your house to the point where it connects to the county's service lateral, and any pump that moves sewage from the house is yours.
Source: Cobb County Code § 122-153, read October 24, 2026“Property owners are responsible for construction and maintenance of the service line from the premises served to the point of connection with the county service lateral.”
On your side of that line? That part is the work we do. Call (404) 482-2527 or send a request.
Our services in Powder Springs
Each job starts with a diagnosis; the service follows what we find.
Local rules in Powder Springs
What the city and its utilities publish about the jobs we do here, each with its source (checked in October 2026). The provider's full rules are on Cobb County.
When sewage backs up
- Cobb County Water System asks customers to call its emergency dispatch line only for a sewer backup in a home or street or for a broken water line that is gushing or leaking severely (Cobb County).
- Cobb County Water System says it can verify whether county sewer lines, including any in an easement on private property, are contributing to a sewer problem on a property (Cobb County).
Your sewer line and the public main
- Powder Springs' development code describes building sewers as privately funded lines that typically run from the building to the property line, where they tie into the public lateral sewers in streets, rights-of-way or easements (Municode).
- Cobb County's water and wastewater code makes property owners responsible for building and maintaining the service line from the house to the point where it meets the county's service lateral, and any pump that lifts sewage into the county system is the owner's to repair (Municode).
Cleanouts (1)
- Cobb County's Development Standards require sewer service laterals built for new development to be at least 6 inches in diameter within the public right-of-way or a sewer easement and to end in a cleanout assembly, with each lateral's location permanently marked in the curb (Cobb County).
Roots and pipe defects (1)
- Cobb County Water System's camera inspections of its sewers often find broken pipes, offset joints, root intrusion and improperly installed service connections, defects it repairs to help prevent blockages and overflows (Cobb County).
Grease and what goes down the drain (2)
- Cobb County Water System explains that kitchen grease cools and clings inside sewer pipes, narrowing them until sewage is forced back up into a home, a street or a creek (Cobb County).
- Cobb County Water System says only toilet paper and human waste should be flushed, and it lists baby and disinfectant wipes, paper towels, hygiene products and medications among the items to keep out of toilets (Cobb County).
Permits (2)
- Powder Springs accepts permit applications only electronically and requires a permit before anyone installs, alters, repairs or replaces a plumbing system; the city's building inspections are carried out by a third-party provider (powderspringsga.gov).
- Powder Springs issues permits only to licensed contractors or to owners who live in the home being altered; a homeowner acting as general contractor or doing the work personally can sign an affidavit to get permits in their own name (powderspringsga.gov).
Digging in the street or right-of-way (3)
- Powder Springs' code requires a permit from the city clerk or the mayor before anyone digs into or tears up a paved city street or sidewalk, along with a written agreement to restore it to its prior condition or better (Municode).
- Powder Springs' development code says existing city roads may not be open-cut unless the public works director approves it for unusual circumstances, and pipes installed after a street is built are to be bored (Municode).
- Where Powder Springs allows an open cut, the trench must be backfilled and compacted the same day, and the pavement cut must be widened at least 9 inches beyond the trench edges before it is patched with concrete and asphalt (Municode).
Your water line (2)
- Cobb County Water System owns and maintains the water pipe from the main to the meter; the pipe from the meter to the house, including the buried run across the lot, is the property owner's to maintain (Cobb County).
- Cobb County's code makes each water customer responsible for the meter and meter box from installation to removal, so regrading must not damage or bury the box, and whoever damages it pays for the repair (Municode).
Septic systems (3)
- Powder Springs' development code requires homes to connect to public sewer at the owner's cost once it is available, which for an existing house means it can drain by gravity to a line in a public right-of-way or easement passing the property (Municode).
- Powder Springs' code requires septic tanks and drain fields to meet state, county and city requirements (Municode).
- Cobb County Water System says a water bill with a sewer charge means the home is on public sewer, while a bill without one likely means an onsite septic system, which Cobb & Douglas Public Health regulates in Cobb County (Cobb County).
Other local rules (3)
- Powder Springs' code adopts the Cobb County water and wastewater systems code (Chapter 122, Article II of the Cobb County Code) (Municode).
- Powder Springs' trenching ordinance requires a city permit, posted at the job site, before any excavation or trenching, and a holder of the city's trench-safety certificate must be present whenever anyone works in a trench (Municode).
- Powder Springs' code bans sending stormwater, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage or cooling water into any sewer (Municode).
Lead service line records in Powder Springs
Water utilities must keep a public record of what each service line is made of. What the categories and the utility's letter mean: lead service line check.
Cobb County Water System
Water utility
Lead service line inventory: Inventory map
Cobb County Water System says it found no lead or galvanized-requiring-replacement lines; its whole inventory is listed as non-lead, and it has a mapped inventory and a form to report your own line's material.
Look up your line The utility’s inventory page
Source: Cobb County, read October 24, 2026Who owns the water line
The county owns the pipe from the water main to the meter; the pipe from the meter to the house is the owner's.
Source: Cobb County, read October 24, 2026Nearby service areas
Drain or sewer trouble in Powder Springs?
Tell us what the drains are doing, where and since when.
Call (404) 482-2527Or send a service request online
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Sewage coming out of a manhole or at the street?
Who to call first
Cobb County Water System(770) 419-6201Emergency response and dispatch (sewer backups, broken water lines)
Drain or sewer trouble in Powder Springs?
Call and describe what is happening, where, and since when — the visit starts from there.
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