Anne Arundel County Department of Public Works – Utilities
Glen Burnie, Broadneck, and Anne Arundel County public-water service areas
Population reference
290,606 people (EPA SDWIS PWS ID MD0020017; 2026 active CWS record).
Billing detail
Partial public detail found
Official destination
Open provider website ↗Provider-specific findings
Billing and account research from public material
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- Billing frequency
- Quarterly utility billing by area-specific meter-reading cycle. Water and wastewater charges may appear with front-foot, environmental-protection, capital-facility, or other applicable assessments.
- Rate structure
- County water and wastewater rates include fixed availability/service components plus metered water and wastewater quantity charges. The County publishes a 2026 rate schedule effective July 1, 2026; residential wastewater can receive an automatic excess-use credit for qualifying seasonal outdoor consumption.
- Wastewater and sewer calculation
- Anne Arundel bills water and wastewater through the County utility account. The County automatically applies an Excess Use Credit to a portion of residential wastewater charges during the applicable summer billing quarter when outdoor usage qualifies; the reviewed pages do not state a universal winter-average formula.
- Meter reading
- The County’s Emergency Services team monitors a SCADA system using radio frequencies at more than 7,500 operating points every five to seven minutes. Customer water meters are read by area-specific quarterly cycles; the reviewed pages do not identify a universal residential AMI vendor or hourly customer-meter transmission interval.
Context, not a score
How documentation coverage compares
This profile
57%
overview fields with research notes
Maryland
63%
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
- Anne Arundel County Department of Public Works – Utilities public website ↗
Provider-controlled destination used to confirm current customer instructions.
- EPA SDWIS / ECHO lookup (MD0020017) ↗
Search the federal drinking-water database using public water system ID MD0020017.