City of Compton Water Utility Division

Provider briefing

How this utility’s billing works

City of Compton Water Utility Division operates as a municipal department serving City of Compton, Los Angeles County; active PWS CA1910026. Customers should use the provider’s current account-specific bill and official customer-service instructions as the final authority for deadlines, balances, and service requests.

The published water-rate framework is described as Monthly fixed meter service charge plus an increasing two-tier volumetric structure measured in HCF/100-cubic-foot billing units, with separate residential/multifamily allocation rules. For Class A customers such as single-family residential, Tier 1 is usage below 20 billing units at $2.67/HCF and Tier 2 is usage above 20 units at $3.09/HCF. Multifamily Class B receives 10 HCF per condominium/apartment in Tier 1 before the higher Tier 2 rate. The published minimum monthly 3/4-inch charge is $30.54, and a $21.17 monthly per-account water-improvement charge is listed. The City page currently displays this adopted schedule as beginning July 1, 2014; customers should verify any subsequent ordinance or account-specific adjustment.. Bills are generated monthly. the city mails a utility bill every month, reads the water meter monthly, and bills sewer and trash components on the same utility statement. the printed bill controls the exact generation date and due date; the discontinuation policy defines the regular-bill late-charge trigger as the close of business on the 21st day after the blue regular bill is generated., and a typical residential cost reference is Using the City's published 3/4-inch minimum charge of $30.54, $21.17 monthly water-improvement charge, Tier 1 rate of $2.67/HCF, and the 10% Utility Users Tax on the water service and usage components, a 5,000-gallon month (about 6.68 HCF) is approximately $72.90 for water before any sewer-improvement charge, trash, taxes on other components, or late fees. A 7,000-gallon month (about 9.36 HCF) is approximately $82.35 under the same assumptions. The City also bills sewer and waste components on the utility statement, so a customer's total mailed bill is higher and premise-specific; the displayed water schedule should be confirmed for 2026 applicability.. These descriptions are useful planning benchmarks; actual charges can change with meter size, usage, sewer averaging, local taxes, drought stages, or account-specific fees.

Wastewater and sewer calculation

Compton's utility statement includes a sewer-improvement charge based on water usage plus a separate sewer service charge administered by the City. The City's FY 2026–27 sewer report identifies a flat $54 annual residential/small-commercial assessment for parcels averaging less than 10,000 cubic feet of monthly water usage, equivalent to $4.50 per month, with higher sliding charges for larger commercial/industrial usage and exemptions including vacant lots, septic tanks, seniors, and disabled citizens. The utility bill also includes waste-hauling charges. The exact sewer-improvement line and any property-specific sewer assessment appear on the issued statement rather than as a simple percentage of potable-water charges.

Meter and infrastructure notes

Compton reads customer water meters and bills monthly. The official meter guide describes a conventional register: read the white numbers, use the sweep hand where one complete revolution represents one cubic foot (7.48 gallons), and watch the low-flow indicator with every indoor and outdoor fixture off to identify a customer-side leak. The City's water-source page identifies eight groundwater wells and three imported-water connections, but the customer materials do not disclose an AMI/AMR vendor, radio interval, hourly transmission, fixed route calendar, or universal automated leak-alert service. Treat the documented customer-facing system as periodic monthly meter reading unless Compton confirms advanced-meter capability for a specific premise.