City of Compton Water Department / Municipal Utilities Billing

Provider briefing

How this utility’s billing works

City of Compton Water Department / Municipal Utilities Billing operates as a municipal department serving Compton. 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 Two-tier increasing block structure. Class A customers, including single-family residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal accounts, receive the first 20 HCF at $2.67/HCF and usage above 20 HCF at $3.09/HCF. Class B multi-family accounts receive 10 HCF per condo/apartment at the first-tier rate before the second tier; a meter-size minimum and a $21.17 monthly capital-improvement charge also apply under the published schedule.. Bills are generated monthly. compton's current water-rate page states that class a and class b water charges are billed monthly by 100 cubic feet (hcf) billing units., and a typical residential cost reference is Using the published 3/4-inch minimum of $30.54, the $21.17 monthly capital-improvement charge, and approximately 6.684 HCF for 5,000 gallons at the $2.67 first-tier rate, the water subtotal is about $69.56; adding the City's 10% users tax produces an illustrative water-only total of about $76.52 before any other municipal utility services. The current page still labels the underlying schedule as beginning July 1, 2014, so customers should confirm any adopted 2026 amendment.. 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

The reviewed Compton Water Department rate page publishes water charges and the capital-improvement charge but does not expose a separate current sewer/wastewater rate or winter-average formula. The municipal utility bill may include other services, but the public water schedule should not be used to infer a sewer charge; customers should ask Municipal Utilities Billing for the applicable wastewater calculation.

Meter and infrastructure notes

Compton states that it operates about 14,500 service connections and meters water by monthly 100-cubic-foot billing units. The reviewed public pages do not identify an AMI/AMR vendor, remote transmission interval, or physical-reading route schedule; customers can request consumption history and a high-consumption inquiry through the online system.