City of Manteca Finance Department – Utility Services / Municipal Water and Sewer
City of Manteca
Population reference
84,928 people for active PWS CA3910005 in California Drinking Water Watch, with approximately 23,000 water connections reported by the City’s Utility Services page.
Billing detail
Broad public detail found
Official destination
Open provider website ↗Provider-specific findings
Billing and account research from public material
Provider-specific research notes are displayed separately from fields that contain only an unavailable-information marker. Read qualifiers in each note and verify current account terms with the provider.
- Billing frequency
- Monthly. The bill covers prior-month use, is processed around the 15th, and is due on the 15th of the following month; the grace period extends through the last working day of the month.
- Rate structure
- Metered municipal water service with fixed and volume components; the City’s 2024 Water Rate Study and June 2026 engineering page describe proposed monthly water-rate updates based on cost of service. The current public pages do not render a complete 2026 residential meter-size and volumetric dollar table, so the exact active tier values are not publicly documented. Manteca’s supply is mostly surface water purchased from SSJID with City groundwater wells supplementing it.
- Wastewater and sewer calculation
- Manteca’s FY2025–26 sewer study lists a single-family residential sewer charge of $58.60 per unit, multi-family residential $41.70 per unit, and mobile-home $37.20 per unit. Commercial classes are flow/strength based, including low-, mid-, and high-strength rates per 1,000 cubic feet. The accessible public summary does not state a winter-average calculation or a flat percentage tie-in for single-family clean-water intake.
- Meter reading
- Manteca’s free online account access displays billing, meter reading, and usage history, and the City states that the meter is read within one business day of a requested service closing. The public pages do not identify the residential meter hardware vendor or AMR/AMI technology, and do not publish the ordinary monthly route schedule; the verified billing cadence is monthly.
- New-account deposit
- A $100 deposit is required from all customers at activation. It remains until satisfactory status, defined by the City as no more than two delinquent notices during a consecutive 12-month period. A new city service location requires a new account and new deposit; the deposit is due when service is activated and can be paid by card with the electronic move-in application. The current public page does not describe a credit-check waiver or refund mechanics beyond satisfactory-status retention.
- Activation or transfer fee
- No separate ordinary activation or transfer fee is published. Start service requires a move-in application, rental agreement or escrow-closing documents, government-issued ID, and the $100 deposit. When a delinquent service is restored, the $25 reconnection fee applies in addition to balances and any required deposit.
Context, not a score
How documentation coverage compares
This profile
86%
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
Broad public detail found
6 of 7 fields in this section contain provider-specific public detail in dataset August 1, 2026.
Documented
86%
Details not confirmed in the reviewed public material
- Residential cost reference
“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
- City of Manteca Finance Department – Utility Services / Municipal Water and Sewer 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 (CA3910005) ↗
Search the federal drinking-water database using public water system ID CA3910005.