Emergency Plumber in Rockville Centre, NYVillage Utilities, Pre-War Pipes, Apartment Buildings

The village's department list gives separate numbers for each system:

• Water Department, behind the police station at 142 Maple Avenue: (516) 678-9301. A leak at the curb, the meter or in the street is theirs.
• Electric Department emergencies and outages: (516) 766-5800. The village, not a private company, supplies electricity here, so a power problem affecting an electric water heater or a sump pump goes to them.
• Public Works, 10 Sunrise Highway: (516) 678-9288, weekdays 8 to 4. The village's annual report says Public Works runs the Sewer Department along with highways and sanitation, so a backed-up street sewer goes to them.
• Gas: National Grid, 1-800-490-0045, or 911 if you smell gas. Leave the house first.

Anything inside the house, including the drain line to the street, is ours: (516) 360-9493.

The same survey shows 31% of homes in buildings with five or more units, most of them buildings of 20 or more. In those buildings, the risers, stacks and boilers are the building's. If water is coming through your ceiling from the unit above, call the super or management first so they can shut the riser. Inside your own unit, a failed supply line under a sink, a toilet fill valve or a dishwasher hose is something we can fix.