City of Arcadia Public Works Services – Water and Sewer Utility Billing
City of Arcadia municipal water and sewer service area, Los Angeles County; active CWS PWS CA1910003
Population reference
51,361 people served by active PWS CA1910003 according to California SDWIS, with approximately 14,182 residential and 1,382 commercial metered records. The City states that it provides water and sewer service to more than 56,000 residents and businesses; the SDWIS population is the system-specific figure used here.
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 after a 2026 transition from bi-monthly billing. Arcadia’s rates page states that the City moved from bi-monthly to monthly billing, while older Sure Pay instructions describe the prior bi-monthly cycle; current monthly bills and the effective July 1, 2026 rate update control.
- Rate structure
- Metered monthly municipal rate with a fixed customer/service charge by meter size and a usage charge per HCF, plus applicable sewer, water-quality, utility-user-tax, and other service components. The City’s 2026 fee schedule lists metered water at $3.18 per HCF for the published service category and separately lists monthly sewer charges; exact residential water charges depend on the current rate card and meter size.
- Residential cost reference
- Using the published $3.18/HCF metered-water rate as a directional 2026 usage component, 5,000–7,000 gallons is 6.68–9.36 HCF and produces about $21.24–$29.96 in monthly commodity charges before the fixed water service charge, taxes, and other charges. The current Arcadia rate card should be used for the exact residential fixed charge; monthly sewer is listed at $9.05 for a single-family account.
- Wastewater and sewer calculation
- Arcadia bills sewer separately but on the same utility account. The 2026 service-charge schedule lists a $9.05 monthly residential sewer charge and a commercial/government/institution charge of $9.05 plus a $0.67 variable HCF component. The reviewed materials do not state a winter-average calculation for single-family residential accounts.
- Meter reading
- Arcadia provides a Water Smart Home Water Report portal and moved from bi-monthly to monthly billing in 2026, indicating current usage monitoring and more frequent account cycles. The reviewed pages do not identify the AMI/AMR vendor or hourly transmission schedule; the defensible description is municipal metered service with online usage reporting and monthly billing.
Context, not a score
How documentation coverage compares
This profile
71%
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
5 of 7 fields in this section contain provider-specific public detail in dataset August 1, 2026.
Documented
71%
Details not confirmed in the reviewed public material
- New-account deposit
- Activation or transfer fee
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Primary verification routes
- City of Arcadia Public Works Services – Water and Sewer Utility Billing public website ↗
Provider-controlled destination used to confirm current customer instructions.
- csd.ca.gov reference ↗
Public URL preserved in the compiled record. Confirm its publisher, date, and applicability before relying on it.
- EPA SDWIS / ECHO lookup (CA1910003) ↗
Search the federal drinking-water database using public water system ID CA1910003.