Of the 25 gallons leakage, about 15 may be lost between the reservoir and the stopcock.
There are various reasons for that—mains and pipes burst, stopcocks prove defective and reservoirs leak.
I have the impression from reading the amendment that it might prevent an undertaker from even putting in a stopcock on private land.
They have access to the public water supply, as the main stopcock is on the farm.
When there is a burst, one has no idea where the internal stopcock is.
They tackled the problem by breaking up the ground around the stopcock in order to turn it off.
That is of concern to me because stopcocks need to be put in and often changed.
The owner of the property was responsible for anything that ensued between the cut-off point—that is to say, the stopcock outside, and inside the dwellinghouse.
