Suffolk County Water Authority (SCWA)

Provider briefing

How this utility’s billing works

Suffolk County Water Authority (SCWA) operates as a public water authority serving Suffolk County, Long Island. 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 Quarterly fixed service charge plus metered consumption in CCF. The published schedule lists a $34.33 quarterly service charge, a standard $1.866 per CCF rate through 120 CCF per quarter, and a conservation rate of $2.694 per CCF on usage above 120 CCF for meters up to one inch; larger meters use separate thresholds.. Bills are generated quarterly. scwa explains that seasonal irrigation can make an october bill high because it reflects summer use, and its rate schedule expresses charges per quarter., and a typical residential cost reference is Approximately $37.70 per month before the Water Quality Treatment Charge when the household uses 5,000 gallons per month: 5,000 gallons is about 6.68 CCF, so one quarter is about 20.05 CCF and falls below the conservation threshold. The published $34.33 quarterly service charge plus usage at $1.866/CCF yields about $113.16 per quarter, or $37.72 monthly, before the published $20 quarterly treatment charge, taxes, or other applicable 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

SCWA is a drinking-water authority and its published household rate schedule is for water service; it does not establish a universal sewer calculation for every Suffolk County municipality. Wastewater, if applicable, is billed by the local sewer district or municipality and may use a separate flat, metered, or seasonal formula.

Meter and infrastructure notes

SCWA bills quarterly and maintains meters and remote-reading devices; the schedule says meters and remote reading devices remain SCWA property. The reviewed pages do not state a universal hourly AMI transmission schedule, but customers can use bill usage history and SCWA's high-bill tools to diagnose readings.