California Domestic Water Company
Wholesale transmission and treatment system from El Monte through Industry, Whittier, La Habra Heights, La Habra, and Brea; active PWS CA1910199
Population reference
California Drinking Water Watch lists 290,814 people for active community water system CA1910199, with 20 commercial and 1 industrial listed service connection and no residential connections in the state registry. The Company's public 2023 regional description says its potable water is delivered through Suburban Water Systems, the City of La Habra, and the City of Brea to about 222,000 people; that figure describes downstream customers rather than a direct retail customer count. The Company's current operating profile is primarily wholesale, so both official population descriptions are retained with that distinction.
Billing detail
Partial public detail found
Official destination
Open provider website ↗Provider-specific findings
Billing and account research from public material
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- Billing frequency
- Monthly for wholesale water-service invoices. The rules state that meters are read at or near the end of each month as operationally feasible and invoices are prepared, processed, and rendered during the first week of the following month for the consumption month. Each invoice includes a Shareholder Water Entitlement and Consumption Report showing monthly deliveries, annual consumption, and credits against water entitlements.
- Rate structure
- Wholesale shareholder cost-of-service structure rather than a retail household tier schedule. The Board annually establishes ready-to-serve rates from each wholesale shareholder's prior three-year rolling average system demand, with quantity rates by delivery lift, watermaster assessments, common-stock assessments, preferred-stock entitlements, excess-water charges, and other approved shareholder charges. The most recently publicly posted wholesale schedule covers July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025: ready-to-serve $0.218/CCF, quantity rates by LIFT 1W, LIFT 1E, and LIFT 2E, plus $100 per common-stock share billed in three installments. A separate 2026 rate schedule was not exposed in the reviewed public documents, so exact 2026 wholesale prices are not publicly documented rather than inferred.
- Meter reading
- The current rules state that California Domestic meters are read at or near the end of each month as operationally feasible, with re-reads for billing accuracy, newly installed meters, closing bills, and other operational purposes. Wholesale invoices report delivered and consumed water by month and entitlement credits. The Company operates seven active groundwater wells, treatment facilities, pumps, and approximately 30 miles of pipeline, but the reviewed public materials do not identify an AMI/AMR vendor, hourly customer telemetry, remote-read frequency, or a fixed retail route calendar. The documented method is periodic monthly operational meter reading and shareholder reporting.
- Activation or transfer fee
- The latest public retail schedule lists a $25 stock-transfer fee per transaction, a $25 regular-hours turn-on fee, and a $50 after-hours turn-on fee, all from the FY 2024–25 schedule. Current wholesale service is shareholder-based, and the Company is offering to buy back shares from approximately 160 former retail properties and transfer those accounts to the City of La Habra or Suburban Water Systems. No separate confirmed 2026 consumer activation or successor-provider transfer fee is published; obtain the exact account/share transaction amount from (562) 947-3811.
Context, not a score
How documentation coverage compares
This profile
57%
overview fields with research notes
California
67%
records with any overview detail
National index
50%
records with any overview detail
Coverage measures what this directory documented. It does not measure service quality, affordability, or regulatory compliance.
Research record
Partial public detail found
4 of 7 fields in this section contain provider-specific public detail in dataset August 1, 2026.
Documented
57%
Details not confirmed in the reviewed public material
- Residential cost reference
- Wastewater and sewer calculation
- New-account deposit
“Not confirmed” means the directory did not identify a dependable public statement. It does not mean the provider has no policy or option.
Primary verification routes
- California Domestic Water Company public website ↗
Provider-controlled destination used to confirm current customer instructions.
- EPA SDWIS / ECHO lookup (CA1910199) ↗
Search the federal drinking-water database using public water system ID CA1910199.