City of Westminster – Westy Water Utility
Westminster, Shaw Heights, and designated outside-city service areas
Population reference
Approximately 116,182 residents in Westminster based on the July 1, 2025 Census estimate, plus separately billed Shaw Heights and outside-city customers. The City’s current public utility pages do not state a single systemwide connection count.
Billing detail
Broad 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 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.
- Rate structure
- 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.
- Residential cost reference
- 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.
- 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 reading
- 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.
- New-account deposit
- The current Westminster rate and billing pages reviewed do not publish a universal residential startup deposit, credit-check waiver, or deposit-return period. New residents instead receive a temporary flat sewer rate until a winter average is available. Customers should ask Utility Billing about account-specific deposit requirements for renters, commercial service, prior balances, or nonstandard service.
- Activation or transfer fee
- The 2026 rate schedule lists a $35 transfer-of-service fee for residential and commercial accounts. The City provides title-company and rental-property transfer workflows through its utility pages; the customer should submit the transfer and confirm the effective date with Utility Billing at (303) 658-2405.
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100%
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68%
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50%
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Research record
Broad public detail found
7 of 7 fields in this section contain provider-specific public detail in dataset August 1, 2026.
Documented
100%
Primary verification routes
- City of Westminster – Westy Water Utility public website ↗
Provider-controlled destination used to confirm current customer instructions.
- EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System ↗
Federal background on public water-system records and their limitations.