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Watsonville Plumber Service Areas: Find Your Town and What Applies Where You Live
Sixteen places, two ZIP codes and four counties. Pick your town to see which office handles your sewer, your water and your permits.
Why the town you live in changes the plumbing answer
The places on this page sit in four counties: Santa Cruz, Monterey, Santa Clara and San Benito. Each has its own permit office, and many of the towns run their own sewer rules. A rule that applies in Watsonville, such as the City's inspection of a sewer lateral when a house sells, does not carry over to a house in Pajaro, Salinas or Gilroy.
Each page below says what applies in that place: who handles the sewer, who handles the water, which permits come up on a water heater or a repipe, and what happens when a house sells. If a fact could not be confirmed from a public source, the page says so and tells you who to ask.
Map of towns near Watsonville within 10 and 20 miles
Communities close to Watsonville
- 13 Corralitos wells and septic Wells, septic and County permits
- 14 Freedom sanitation district Sanitation district lateral rules
- 15 Interlaken sewer or septic Sewer district or septic tank
- 16 Pajaro Village on the Monterey County side Monterey County side of the river
Nearby towns
- 1 Prunedale and the county side of north Monterey County County side of Monterey County; sewer, water and septic vary by street
- 2 Gilroy water heater permits Water heater permits and after-hours sewer trouble
- 3 Live Oak lateral rules County sewer lateral inspection rules
- 4 Santa Cruz house sales and lateral certificates Lateral certificates when a house sells
- 5 Marina side sewers Side sewers and escrow reports
- 6 Morgan Hill sale-time certificate Sale-time lateral certificate and fixture retrofits
- 7 Salinas sewer backups City main or your own lateral
- 8 Hollister water providers Two water providers and local permits
- 9 Seaside plumbing questions Three water providers and one sewer question
- 10 Pacific Grove lateral inspections City rule for a camera look at the lateral
- 11 Monterey resale inspections Resale inspection and heater permits
- 12 Los Gatos sanitation district Sanitation district and Town permits
ZIP codes: 95076 and 95077
These two ZIP codes cover the Watsonville area. ZIP 95076 also reaches into surrounding communities, and some addresses in it fall in a different county than the city.
- 95076
- 95077
The towns in the list above are described for the homeowner who lives there. A page does not mean every address in that town is covered, and a ZIP code is not the whole answer for any address.
Not sure you are in range? Call with your street address. The person who answers will confirm whether we can help before anything is scheduled.
Give us your street address and what is going on, and we will tell you whether the visit makes sense.
Call (833) 840-2034Which office handles permits and sewer questions
Phone numbers below come from each office's published pages. Use them to ask about your own address before you hire anyone for work that needs a permit.
| Where you live | Office | Phone |
|---|---|---|
| City of Watsonville | Building & Safety | (831) 768-3050 |
| Corralitos, Freedom, Interlaken | Santa Cruz County Planning (plumbing permits) | (831) 454-2580 |
| Pajaro | Monterey County Housing and Community Development | (831) 755-5025 |
| City of Monterey | Building Division | (831) 646-3890 |
| Town of Los Gatos | Building Division | (408) 354-6876 |
The other towns have their own offices, and each town page names what it could confirm. A city office answers for addresses inside the city, and a County office answers for the unincorporated areas around it.
Not sure your street is in range? Call with your address
Call with your address and what is happening. The person who answers will confirm whether we can help.