Regional San customers pay a monthly rate for wastewater conveyance and treatment services. Instead of receiving a separate bill, our monthly charge appears on customers’ sewer collection utility bill. Depending on the location of a customer’s home or business in our service area, there are four potential sewer collection utilities including the Sacramento Area Sewer District, City of Sacramento, City of West Sacramento, or City of Folsom.
We are currently in the midst of the largest upgrade to our wastewater
treatment plant since its inception. These upgrades—known as the EchoWater Project—must be completed and operational by 2023, and the construction cost alone is between $1.5 and $2.1 billion.
To continue funding this project, our monthly rate will increase in small increments through 2021. The annual amounts are shown in the table below.
New Environmental Regulations Require Higher Levels of Wastewater Treatment
In response to the decline of the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta ecosystem and concerns over ammonia, nitrates and pathogens, a series of tough new water quality requirements were imposed on us by the State of California through our discharge permit. Significant upgrades to our wastewater treatment plant must be completed by 2021-2023. These upgrades, known as the EchoWater Project, are expected to cost about $1.5 billion to build and approximately $50 million in additional yearly operations and maintenance costs.
Category
Current Rate
Single-Family Residential
$36.00/month for each
single-family residence
Multi-Family Residential
$27.00/month for each
multi-family dwelling unit
Age-Restricted
Residential
Developments
$21.60/month for each
age-restricted dwelling unit
Note: The minimum monthly charge for any permitted Liquid Waste Hauler is $33/month for the purpose of recovering administrative costs. Billings based on 90% of tank capacity per discharge.
This pie chart shows the portion of the current Regional San monthly basic rate (for single-family residential) that is needed to pay for the existing treatment process versus the amount needed to pay for the EchoWater Project.
Our rate history since 2005 is shown below. Beginning in 2011, significant revenue is needed to comply with Discharge Permit requirements over the next several years to build the EchoWater Project.
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