City of Westminster – Westy Water Utility

Provider briefing

How this utility’s billing works

City of Westminster – Westy Water Utility operates as a municipal department serving Westminster, Shaw Heights, and designated outside-city service areas. 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 Increasing block tiers with a monthly fixed infrastructure charge, roadway-improvement fee, and stormwater fee. Inside-city single-family 2026 water rates are $4.20 per 1,000 gallons for 1,000–8,000 gallons, $7.66 for 9,000–40,000 gallons, and $9.58 above 41,000 gallons. A 5/8-inch meter has a $15.34 monthly charge; the residential stormwater fee is $6 per month and the roadway-improvement fee is $6 per month. Shaw Heights and outside-city multipliers are higher.. Bills are generated monthly utility billing; westminster’s public rate page describes monthly utility bills, and westy water supports full-balance payment on each due date or scheduled fixed monthly payments., and a typical residential cost reference is For an inside-city 5/8-inch single-family account using 7,000 gallons, water is approximately $44.74 ($15.34 fixed plus 7 x $4.20), before sewer and other fees. Using a representative 5,000-gallon winter sewer average, wastewater is approximately $49.50, plus $6 stormwater and $6 roadway improvement, or about $106 per month before any sanitation or account-specific charges. Actual sewer depends on the January–March winter average, not the current month’s water use.. 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

Westminster calculates residential sewer units from average monthly water consumption billed during the January–March sewer-rate calculation period, divided by 1,000. Inside-city single-family wastewater is $9.90 per unit with a $19.80 minimum; new residents pay a temporary $40.97 flat monthly rate until an average can be established. The same winter-average method applies to Shaw Heights, while outside-city single-family wastewater is $12.37 per unit with a $24.74 minimum. Current usage outside the base period does not directly reset the sewer average until the next calculation cycle.

Meter and infrastructure notes

Westy Water exposes monthly, daily, and hourly water consumption in the customer portal and can send email leak alerts when customers enable Leak Alert notifications. The public pages reviewed do not name the meter manufacturer or state whether the physical network is AMR or AMI; the presence of hourly usage indicates electronically collected interval data, but the exact transmission schedule and read route are not published.