City of Bremerton Water Department - Utility Billing
Bremerton
Population reference
Approximately 72,951 people in the EPA-listed Bremerton community-water-system service area.
Billing detail
Broad public detail found
Official destination
Open provider website ↗Provider-specific findings
Billing and account research from public material
Provider-specific research notes are displayed separately from fields that contain only an unavailable-information marker. Read qualifiers in each note and verify current account terms with the provider.
- Billing frequency
- Monthly, with east and west reading cycles. Residential sewer uses a winter average created from October through March reading periods and applied to summer sewer consumption.
- Rate structure
- Meter-size monthly service charge plus residential commodity charge per hundred cubic feet. The 2026 rate schedule also has low-income, senior, and disabled-citizen rate classes; Bremerton water source is a mix of Union River Reservoir surface water and groundwater wells.
- Residential cost reference
- For a general-service 5/8-by-3/4-inch meter, the 2026 monthly water service charge is $16.85. The current rate PDF exposes the residential commodity charge per HCF, but the accessible excerpt does not show the numeric commodity line; therefore a defensible 5,000-to-7,000-gallon total is not publicly documented without the full table's exact charge. Sewer adds a $42.62 single-family base plus $5.73 per HCF.
- Wastewater and sewer calculation
- Single-family wastewater is $42.62 per month plus $5.73 per HCF; sewer usage is based on water consumption. In summer, the City uses the customer's October-through-March winter average: for example, 15 HCF summer water use with a 5-HCF winter average produces 15 HCF water billing but only 5 HCF sewer billing.
- Meter reading
- Bremerton uses Sensus Flexnet, with the City's service pages providing a dedicated meter-reading video and usage tracking. Residential east and west cycles read on different calendars; the 2026 winter-average schedule specifies October-through-March read windows used for summer sewer billing.
- Activation or transfer fee
- The City provides owner-change and tenant-change forms and deactivation/reactivation requests. The reviewed 2026 rate schedule does not expose a universal residential activation/transfer fee; customers should contact Utility Billing for account-specific charges.
Context, not a score
How documentation coverage compares
This profile
86%
overview fields with research notes
Washington
51%
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
Broad public detail found
6 of 7 fields in this section contain provider-specific public detail in dataset August 1, 2026.
Documented
86%
Details not confirmed in the reviewed public material
- New-account deposit
“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
- City of Bremerton Water Department - Utility Billing 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.