City of Santa Clara Water & Sewer Utilities
Santa Clara
Population reference
130,746
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; the City’s bill-payment materials and monthly utility bill inserts indicate recurring monthly utility billing.
- Rate structure
- Uniform volumetric rate plus a meter-size minimum. Effective July 1, 2026, potable water is $11.09 per HCF (748 gallons), with a 5/8 x 3/4-inch minimum monthly charge of $29.78 and higher minimums for larger meters; there are no published increasing residential block tiers on the current general schedule.
- Residential cost reference
- For a typical 5/8 x 3/4-inch residential meter, the published minimum water charge is $29.78 per month and the single-family sewer charge is $64.46, for an indicative $94.24 water-plus-sewer total before other City utility services and subject to the minimum-charge allowance and actual HCF usage.
- Wastewater and sewer calculation
- Single-family residential sewer is a flat $64.46 per month effective July 1, 2026; multifamily sewer is $58.26 per dwelling unit. Commercial and industrial sewage is calculated by customer class using HCF and a fixed percentage of metered water use or another method approved by the Director. The residential schedule therefore does not use a winter-average clean-water formula.
- Meter reading
- The City requires metered potable service and states that customers who do not provide a required monthly meter reading may be charged the monthly minimum. The reviewed pages do not identify the meter communications technology as AMI/AMR or publish a universal automated transmission schedule.
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
“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 Santa Clara Water & Sewer Utilities public website ↗
Provider-controlled destination used to confirm current customer instructions.
- sacredheartcsb.org reference ↗
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- EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System ↗
Federal background on public water-system records and their limitations.