City of St. Petersburg Utility Accounts – Water, Wastewater and Reclaimed Water

Provider briefing

How this utility’s billing works

City of St. Petersburg Utility Accounts – Water, Wastewater and Reclaimed Water operates as a municipal department serving St. Petersburg and City-served portions of Pinellas County. 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 FY2026 potable water uses a meter-size base charge plus Tampa Bay Water cost recovery and an inverted/increasing block volume rate. For a 5/8- or 3/4-inch meter, the current code lists an $11.00 base charge, a Tampa Bay Water component of $2.64 per 1,000 gallons, and single-family blocks of $4.19 per 1,000 gallons for the first 3,500 gallons and $6.48 for the next 3,500, with additional tier rules for higher consumption. Outside-city charges may carry a 25% surcharge, and irrigation/reclaimed-water accounts use separate schedules.. Bills are generated monthly water-use billing under the city code. the city charges monthly base and volume rates for potable water, wastewater, reclaimed water, and stormwater-related utility services., and a typical residential cost reference is The City’s FY2026 financial presentation gives a representative low-usage 2,000-gallon monthly bill of $24.89 potable water and $50.31 wastewater before stormwater, sanitation, and other bill components. A 5,000-gallon household will be higher because the first 3,500 gallons use the lower inverted block and the next 1,500 move into the $6.48 block; the current public comparison does not publish one exact combined 5,000-gallon total.. 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

St. Petersburg bills wastewater as a separate monthly utility component with its own base and volume charges; the City’s FY2026 example lists $50.31 wastewater for a low-usage 2,000-gallon residential bill. Reclaimed-water and irrigation-only accounts are separately charged and do not receive the same wastewater treatment as potable-water consumption. Leak adjustments can reduce water charges for qualifying involuntary use and may also address associated wastewater under the City’s account-adjustment rules.

Meter and infrastructure notes

The City bills and reads water service monthly. Public customer guidance uses the meter dial/flow indicator for leak checks and the current code does not identify a universal AMI vendor or hourly transmission schedule. Customers can request a meter reread for $24.28; inaccessible-meter reinspection is $60.69, and the City’s water modernization materials should be checked for future smart-meter deployment.