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Council agrees to offer voluntary service-line protection; leak-adjustment option deferred

Monmouth City Council · November 5, 2025
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Summary

Monmouth council agreed to make a voluntary, no‑cost-to-city service-line protection program (water and sewer external line coverage) available to residents through HomeServe/National League of Cities; leak-adjustment/on-bill options were discussed but deferred for later consideration.

The Monmouth City Council on Nov. 4 directed staff to make available a voluntary service-line protection program for residents offered by HomeServe through the National League of Cities partnership, while deferring a related municipal leak-adjustment (on‑bill) program for further review.

Dennis Lyon of HomeServe described two voluntary products that residents may enroll in directly: external water-line protection (repairs up to $8,500 per incident) and external sewer-line protection (same limits), with no annual/lifetime caps or deductibles and a 30-day waiting period after enrollment. He…

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