Oakland water, sewer & drainage 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the water, sewer & drainage category residents of Oakland have filed since January 2021.
Current release
Data through March 2026
Data from January 2021 through March 2026
Total Requests
14.2K
in the water, sewer & drainage category
Latest Month
298
March 2026
Share of total
2.7%
of all Oakland 311 requests
Monthly water, sewer & drainage requests
How many water, sewer & drainage 311 requests Oakland residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
What counts as water, sewer & drainage: Water main breaks and leaks, sewer backups, storm drain clogs, catch basin concerns, and flooding.
In Oakland’s raw 311 feed, the following 2 service_type values roll into water, sewer & drainage:
- METER_REPAIR
- SEWERS
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <oakland_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'METER_REPAIR',
'SEWERS'
)Analyst tip: Austin uses 'AW -' (Austin Water) and 'WPD -' (Watershed Protection Department) prefixes. Calgary uses 'WATS -' (Water and Sewer). NYC uses 'WATER LEAK' and 'Water System'. Baton Rouge has a broader 'ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES' that may include non-water items — cross-check against the raw feed if precision matters.
See how water, sewer & drainage is defined for every tracked city →
Source & provenance
Counts on this page are derived from Oakland’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 through March 2026. Category assignment uses a hand-curated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at data.oaklandca.gov.