City of Cape Coral Utilities – Water, Wastewater and Irrigation
Cape Coral, Lee County
Population reference
Cape Coral Utilities serves the City’s rapidly growing residential and commercial community; the current customer-billing pages do not state a single water-only population total. The City operates municipal water, wastewater, irrigation, and utility-extension systems, and the active Resident Access portal provides daily consumption monitoring and alerts.
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. The City’s FAQ says bills are due upon issuance and payments not received within 20 days of the bill date become past due and delinquent.
- Rate structure
- Cape Coral uses separate water, wastewater, and irrigation charges with fixed meter/base charges plus metered commodity charges; the City publishes a current water, wastewater, and irrigation schedule effective October 1, 2025 and periodic rate-adjustment notices. The published 2024-to-2025 notice shows a common 5/8-inch water base moving from $15.88 to $17.64, water commodity from $18.55 to $20.59 at the example usage, sanitary sewer from $37.60 to $41.72, and irrigation remaining $9.50 in the notice’s 4,000-gallon comparison. Customers should use the current City rate schedule for exact 2026 tier values and distinguish potable water from irrigation and sewer.
- Residential cost reference
- The City’s published rate notice gives a representative 5/8-inch residential comparison at 4,000 gallons: the water component was approximately $20.59 under the schedule presented in the FY25 notice, sanitary sewer approximately $41.72, and irrigation approximately $9.50 when applicable, for about $62.31 without irrigation or $71.81 with irrigation before other City charges. Cape Coral’s current FY2026 rate PDF should be used for the final 2026 amount because the City’s customer page updates the schedule separately from the notice.
- Wastewater and sewer calculation
- Cape Coral bills sanitary sewer separately from potable water and irrigation according to the current water/wastewater rate schedule. The City’s FAQ states that a pool fill may qualify for a sewer adjustment and that a property leak may qualify for a leak adjustment once every 12 months. Irrigation water is separately metered/billed when available, preventing irrigation usage from being treated as wastewater consumption; customers should submit the adjustment form for qualifying pool or leak events.
- Meter reading
- Cape Coral’s Resident Access portal offers daily water-use monitoring and configurable alerts, indicating digital/remote usage-data capability for participating accounts. The City’s current public pages do not identify a universal AMI vendor or an hourly transmission interval; customers should use portal daily readings for leak detection and contact Utilities if a read appears abnormal.
- New-account deposit
- The current public Cape Coral customer-billing pages do not publish a universal residential startup-deposit dollar amount. New-account requirements are handled through the online utility application and Customer Billing Services; customers should ask for the current water, wastewater, irrigation, and any utility-extension deposit before activation. Credit history, property/service status, and prior balances may affect the required amount.
- Activation or transfer fee
- Cape Coral accepts new residential service applications online and through Customer Billing Services; the current public pages do not state one universal water-only activation or transfer fee. A disconnect request must be received at least two days before the requested shutoff date. Customers should confirm any application, meter, inspection, impact, utility-extension, transfer, or same-day fees with (239) 574-7722 before scheduling.
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How documentation coverage compares
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National index
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
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Primary verification routes
- City of Cape Coral Utilities – Water, Wastewater and Irrigation 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.