Yorba Linda Water District (YLWD)

Provider briefing

How this utility’s billing works

Yorba Linda Water District (YLWD) operates as a public water authority serving Yorba Linda and portions of Placentia, Brea, Anaheim, and unincorporated Orange County. 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 Three-part fixed-plus-volumetric structure: a uniform commodity rate per CCF, a fixed monthly base charge based on meter size, and a fixed annual capital-finance charge collected on the property owner’s annual property-tax bill. For FY27, effective July 1, 2026, the adopted commodity rate is $4.24 per CCF, one CCF equals 748 gallons, and the 5/8-inch monthly base charge is $41.93. The District’s water-budget conservation framework helps customers monitor usage, but the adopted FY27 commodity table is a single per-CCF rate rather than a published increasing block.. Bills are generated monthly. ylwd describes the automatic payment deduction as monthly, and its rate pages publish monthly commodity, fixed-base, and sewer-maintenance charges. the bill shows the service period, account summary, billing/due dates, previous and current meter reads, and the usage units used to calculate the consumption charge., and a typical residential cost reference is For a typical 5/8-inch residential meter using 5,000–7,000 gallons per month, approximately 6.68–9.36 CCF at the adopted FY27 commodity rate of $4.24 produces $28.34–$39.68 in usage charges. Adding the $41.93 monthly base charge, the $133.12 annual capital-finance charge equivalent of $11.09 per month, and the $15.56 monthly single-family sewer charge yields an estimated combined water-plus-sewer monthly equivalent of about $96.92–$108.26. The capital charge is collected on the property-tax bill and the estimate excludes private-fire charges, pass-through adjustments, and other account-specific items.. 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

Residential sewer customers pay a fixed flat monthly sewer-maintenance charge; it is added to the water bill when YLWD supplies both water and sewer. The adopted FY27 charge effective July 1, 2026 is $15.56 per month for a single-family residence and $14.15 for a master-metered multifamily residence. Commercial customers pay the fixed charge plus a variable usage charge for water returned to the sewer: the first 600 cubic feet, or 6 CCF, per month is covered by the monthly charge and usage above 6 CCF is charged at $1.33/CCF. There is no sewer rate for landscaping customers because irrigation runoff goes to storm drains. No residential winter-average calculation is used.

Meter and infrastructure notes

YLWD’s 2026 enterprise-systems catalog identifies Sensus AutoRead for desktop meter-data collection and Sensus AutoVu for field meter-data collection, with customer meter data collected and updated daily. Operations performs meter reading, field-service requests, consumption investigations, repairs, and calibrations. Customer guidance explains digital meter displays, low-flow leak detectors, and calculating usage from beginning and ending reads; one CCF equals 748 gallons. The current public materials confirm daily data-collection systems but do not publish a universal route-read date for every customer or an hourly transmission guarantee.