The grounding electrode was the copper water pipes in the home, I am considering if I need to call out a missing bonding jumper at the water meter. My hesitation is that this meter has a “cut it” loop, does this type of meter need a bonding jumper? I rarely see this style of meter with the integrated loop otherwise I would call out the missing bonding jumper at the meter. Thanks!
Service pipe 3/4" Copper, branch lines copper
Here’s the actual code requirement. Doesn’t appear that this setup requires a bonding jumper.
250.53(D) Metal Underground Water Pipe. If used as a grounding electrode, metal underground water pipe shall meet the requirements of 250.53(D)(1) and (D)(2).
(1) Continuity. Continuity of the grounding path or the bonding connection to interior piping shall not rely on water meters or filtering devices and similar equipment.
Thanks so much Robert! 
Around here, the bonding clamp for the grounding electrode must be below the meter and shutoff.
Thanks Lon!
Lon is that a local requirement or just the way they want it done in your area? The NEC says that the connection to the electrode only needs to be within 5’ of the entry of the water pipe into the structure. There was at time many decades ago when the NEC specified the connection to be on the street side of the water main but that is not longer in the code.
A little of both, our local AHJs in all the urban jurisdictions around here want to see it done that way. Since, most of the electricians who work in the rural areas also do city work, they still do it that way in the countryside.
So is there an adopted code that everyone must follow or is it pretty much this is how we do things around here? In NJ we have a clearly adopted code (2020 NEC) with a few local amendments so everyone is on the same page. Sometimes that doesn’t stop some of our inspectors from trying to make up their own code.
The latter. I’ve told several anecdotes over the years here. One, at a flip I am doing, my electrician and the city inspector are discussing the mast that my electrician put up. My electrician has the NEC on the kitchen counter with his finger jabbed into it and says, “See, I did it right.” The city inspector says, “Yes you did, but we are going to do it my way.” His way cost me an extra $250.
And then my favorite, “Here in Aurora, we like to use common sense when we apply the code.” I said, “That’s good to know, but common sense is subjective.”
He said, “Yes, it is, but I am the one making the decision.”
Below is one of the grounding electrodes at a new construction I inspected yesterday. The other one was an Ufer.
That’s horrible. How is anyone supposed to bid and install when someone is making their own rules? Here in NJ we have the DCA (division of consumer affairs) where they will help resolve disputes with overzealous inspectors. The code is to be applied as written and adopted into law. The “my way” garbage should be left at the door.
The NEC would also not require the CEE to be supplemented. It is a standalone means. Was the incoming water still metallic?
Good point. I hesitate to answer because a continuous bond seems to be in place.
A typical setup would be; valve, pipe, adapter, meter nipple, meter, meter nipple, adapter, pipe, valve, house.
You are not out of the woods with plumbing issues. I see two leaks at threads.
What grounding electrode was available?
