Sewer and Water Customer Billing Information

The District bills its customers for sewer and water services on a calendar quarter basis.  Bills are mailed out on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 of each year.  The service charges for sewer and water are calculated from water meter readings which the District collects for each billable property.  Most of the water meters are connected to the phone system and call in to a computer at the District office on a weekly basis.  Meters without phone service are read manually once a quarter for billing purposes.

Sewer and Water User Charges

Automated Bank Draft Billing Available

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Late Payments & Penalties

Reading Your Sewer & Water Bill

Your quarterly sewer and water statement includes information about the water that you used for the billing period.  Box 1 contains the meter reading information that is the basis of the charges shown on the bill.  Box 2 shows the billing period.  Box 3 lists the calculated usages for sewer and water volumes.  The District uses winter averaging to calculate sewer charges during the summer months.  The reason for this is that most of the water used during the summer is for irrigation and outside watering.  This water never reaches the sewer system.  To adjust for this fact, summer sewer bills are calculated using the average water used from October 1st to March 30th; the preceding 4th and 1st quarter meter readings.

Box 1. Lists your usage history for the current billing quarter and the previous 3 billings quarters. You can calculate your average daily usage by dividing these quarterly use figures by 90.

Box 2. Shows the meter reading information which is used to calculate your water and sewer bill. The previous reading is subtracted from the current reading to get the total usage.

Box 3. Shows the beginning and ending date for the service period. In this example, the From date is 07/01 and the To date is 09/30 which is the 3rd quarter.

Box 4. Lists the usage figures that are used to calculate your quarterly water and sewer variable charges. In the example, the light blue number (39,200) is the actual water usage as noted in Box 2. The variable water charge is calculated by taking this number divided by 1,000 and multiplying by $2.35.

The yellow number (12,700) which is used to calculate the variable sewer charge is from the winter average usage for the period October 1st through March 31st, the 4th and 1st quarters. In this example the usage from the Box 1 for the previous 4th and 1st quarters was 12,600 and 12,800 gallons respectively. The winter average that is used for the sewer bill is the average of these 2 quarters, or 12,600 + 12,800 divided by 2 which equals 12,700 gallons.

For bills that are mailed out at the end of the 4th and 1st quarters of each year, the variable sewer charge is calculated based on actual meter readings. The bills for the 2nd and 3rd quarter used the winter averaging shown in the example. ¨

Example Calculations

The spreadsheet below shows how to estimate your water and sewer bill from your meter readings:
 

The spreadsheet below shows the monthly water and sewer rates for a range of daily water usage from 50 gallons per day up to 1,500 gallons per day.
 

Water Rates                     Base Rate =   $       14.25   per month flat rate            Variable Rate =  $         2.35   per 1,000 gallons of water used                                                     Volume of Water Used   Water Rates Per Month   Water Rates Per Quarter         Variable Rate Base Rate Total Monthly   Variable Rate Base Rate Total Qtrly Per Day Per Month Per Quarter   Per Month Per Month Water Bill   Per Quarter Per Quarter Water Bill 50          1,500           4,500    $         3.53  $   14.25  $        17.78    $          10.58  $     42.75  $    53.33 100          3,000           9,000    $         7.05  $   14.25  $        21.30    $          21.15  $     42.75  $    63.90