Sweetwater Authority
National City, Bonita, and western/southwestern San Diego County service area
Population reference
191,282 people (EPA SDWIS active CWS PWS CA3710025)
Billing detail
Partial 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
- Bi-monthly; Sweetwater's 2026 rate tables identify bi-monthly variable charges and the bill estimator is designed around the Authority's billing cycle.
- Rate structure
- Bi-monthly metered water charge composed of a water-use charge, meter charge by meter size, and San Diego County Water Authority pass-through charges. Effective January 1, 2026, the Authority's variable charge table lists $6.12 per HCF for single-family residential service classes and the SDCWA wholesale purchase charge lists $0.57 per HCF, before fixed meter and pass-through components.
- Wastewater and sewer calculation
- Sweetwater Authority provides water and wastewater services in its mission statement, but the reviewed bill-and-rates pages primarily explain water, meter, and wholesale pass-through charges and did not expose a universal sewer calculation or winter-average formula.
- Meter reading
- Sweetwater provides a How to Read Your Meter resource and schedules usage by bi-monthly billing cycles. The reviewed pages did not identify a universal AMI/AMR vendor or automated transmission interval.
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
- 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
- Sweetwater Authority public website ↗
Provider-controlled destination used to confirm current customer instructions.
- EPA SDWIS / ECHO lookup (CA3710025) ↗
Search the federal drinking-water database using public water system ID CA3710025.