HARFORD COUNTY D.P.W.

Provider briefing

How this utility’s billing works

HARFORD COUNTY D.P.W. operates as a municipal department serving ABINGDON. 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 meter-size base charge plus per-1,000-gallon usage, excess-use thresholds/rates, a variable purchased-water adjustment, water asset-reinvestment charge, and property-specific capital/user-benefit assessments. The county FY26-FY30 proposed Bill 25-004 included July 1, 2026 tables, but the official legislation page records Bill 25-004 as withdrawn; therefore exact current FY26 billed rates must be confirmed with Water and Sewer Accounting at 410-638-3311 rather than treating the withdrawn proposal as adopted.. Bills are generated quarterly. meters are read and bills issued quarterly; usage bills are due 30 days from issue date. separate annual assessment notices are mailed around july 1 and are due by september 30., and a typical residential cost reference is A dedicated this detail was not publicly posted. For an exact current 2026 figure because the official FY26 rate-revision bill was withdrawn and the current public page directs customers to call for rate schedules. For planning only, the withdrawn FY26 proposal would have produced approximately $96.07 to $128.83 per month for a 5/8-inch meter using 5,000 to 7,000 gallons per month for combined water and metered sewer, before variable purchased-water adjustments, asset-reinvestment charges, and annual assessments; this is explicitly not an adopted/current quote.. 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

Quarterly metered sewer base charge by meter size plus per-1,000-gallon usage, an excess-use threshold/rate, separate sewer asset/assessment charges, and service-area variation. The withdrawn FY26 proposal listed 5/8-inch sewer base $17.34 and $9.73/1,000 gallons with a 32,000-gallon quarterly threshold and $11.68 excess rate, but those values must not be represented as adopted. Some county service areas use flat sewer rates; the official rate schedule varies by location. No sewer credit is given for filling pools or outdoor watering.

Meter and infrastructure notes

Quarterly meter reads and billing. Harford 15-year meter-replacement program replaces meters older than 15 years at no customer charge. All county meters have a wireless device transmitting readings over a licensed short-range radio frequency to a handheld; this is AMR-style collection rather than a published hourly AMI feed. Outside meters can be swapped without entering the home; inside meters require an appointment, generally 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays, 15 to 30 minutes with water off about 5 to 10 minutes.