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Tell us what the water is doing, whether it has stopped and whose home it is. A person reads every request and matches it to a licensed, insured plumber for the part that cannot wait. We cannot promise how soon a request sent at night is read, so close the main shutoff first.

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A person reads it. It is not sold to lead buyers and it is not an auto-reply: someone looks at whether the water has stopped, what is near power or gas, and whose home it is.
Your request goes to a licensed, insured plumber who works your town, who contacts you on the number you give. If it sounds like the utility's pipe rather than yours, you are told that instead.
There is no phone number on this site yet. We would rather say so than print one we cannot vouch for, so the form is the way in. While you wait, keep the main shutoff closed and photograph everything before it is moved.

Five entries are mandatory: name, phone number, email, the property's street address and its ZIP code. The questions and the message box can be skipped. The ZIP code picks the plumber who covers that town, the street line tells them which house, and the address never appears in our logs.

Local Detail

What Clay's heating mix and the tank pan rule change

Stainless repair clamp bolted over a copper pipe with a towel catching drips

ACS 2020 to 2024 estimates give the Town of Clay 26,282 housing units, the most of any town in Onondaga County, with a vacancy rate of 2.1 percent, the lowest in this metro, and a median year built of 1978. Some 24.6 percent of occupied units heat with electricity and 68.6 percent with utility gas.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 five year estimates, accessed 2026-09-24

Section P2801.6 of the Residential Code of New York State requires a storage tank water heater installed where leakage would cause damage to sit in a pan at least 1.5 inches deep drained by an indirect waste pipe of at least 3/4 inch, but does not require a pan drain for a replacement heater where none was installed before. Section P2801.7 requires a water heater with an ignition source in a garage to be elevated so the ignition source is at least 18 inches above the floor, unless listed as flammable vapor ignition resistant.

Source: UpCodes, reproducing the 2020 Residential Code of New York State, accessed 2026-09-24

Section 5.4 of the OCWA Customer Rules keeps meters as Authority property maintained at its expense for ordinary wear, but states the customer will be responsible for damage due to freezing, hot water or other causes.

Source: Onondaga County Water Authority, accessed 2026-09-24

Next Step

Clay water heater leaking across the floor?

Breaker off for an electric tank, gas off for a gas one, then close the cold inlet. Send us what you see and a licensed plumber takes it from there.

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Planning

Breaker or gas valve first: Clay's mix of electric and gas tanks

Clay is the largest town in Onondaga County by housing, an estimated 26,282 homes, and it has the lowest vacancy in the metro, so nearly every emergency here is in a home someone is living in. About a quarter of households heat with electricity, which usually means an electric water heater, and that decides the order of the first minutes. Switch the heater's breaker off at the panel before anything else, then close the cold inlet valve on top of the tank; leave the draining to the plumber, because the water inside can scald. On a gas home, roughly two in three here, the gas supply takes the breaker's place. A tank installed where a leak would cause damage is required to sit in a drained pan, so water spreading across a finished floor can mean the pan is missing, blocked or overwhelmed, which is worth a photograph. Clay's water comes from OCWA, and one winter detail costs owners here: OCWA keeps the meter as its property but holds the customer responsible for freezing damage to it, so a cracked meter spraying in a cold basement is a shut-the-house-valve job and a call to OCWA, not something to remove yourself.

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Clay emergencies we connect occupied homes with a plumber for

Burst and Frozen Pipe Emergencies

Stop the water coming out of a burst or frozen pipe, keep the damage from spreading, and get a licensed plumber in for the part that cannot wait until morning.

Burst and Frozen Pipes in Clay →

Leaking Water Heater and No Hot Water

Make a leaking or failed water heater safe, stop the water feeding it, and find out whether this is a tonight problem or a job that can wait for a daylight quote.

Water Heater Emergencies in Clay →

Sewage Backups and Overflowing Toilets

Stop sewage or an overflow from getting worse, find out whether the problem is in the public sewer, and get a licensed plumber for the part that is yours.

Sewage and Overflows in Clay →