Your Commercial/Industrial Water Bill

This monthly fee recovers the cost of meter reading, maintenance, and replacement, billing, pipeline maintenance, and public fire protection. It is charged regardless of the amount of water used.

This rate is charge per 100 cubic feet (CCF) of water used, or 748 gallons. Your meter reading is rounded down each month.

Your rate is an inclining block rate structure where the customer is charged based on a uniform rate for 3 months of the year (December – February) and are subject to two surcharge rate tiers during the summer months (March – November).  Usage during the months of December through February is used to determine each customer’s Winter Average Consumption (WAC).  During summer months, when usage exceeds a customer’s WAC, that portion of consumption between 101% and 145% of WAC is billed at a higher rate per unit (CCF) as shown below.  Usage over 145% of WAC is then charged at an even higher rate (block 3).

Commerical

This is a customer classification of service wherein family units do not normally reside and includes, but is not limited to, motels, hotels, rest homes, fraternal organizations, laundries, service stations, bottling works, hospitals, restaurants, wholesale, retail and other business establishments, governmental offices or organizations.

Industrial

This is a customer classification of services that use at least five million (5,000,000) gallons of water per month for manufacturing purposes at one (1) geographically contiguous location or use sixty million (60,000,000) or more gallons of water in any calendar year for manufacturing purposes at one (1) geographically contiguous location; and schools in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) by prior contract with the city.

Construction

Volumetric charges for construction water used for dust control, soil abatement, cement, etc. is $4.20/CCF.

Community Garden

All usage is charged at $2.79/CCF. Learn more.

This $1.00 surcharge charged per CCF funds the cost of water purchased from the Central Arizona Project.

This $0.10 fee charged per CCF funds our conservation efforts. Learn more about our Conservation program.

This $0.13 fee is charged per CCF and funds the Storm to Shade program that installs and maintains green stormwater infrastructure (GSI). This only applies to residents inside Tucson city limits. Learn more about GSI.

If you are enrolled in Fire Protection services, visit Fire Protection Rates and Charges.

If you are enrolled in Reclaimed Water services, visit Reclaimed Water Rates and Charges.

Taxes are charged to customers based on the municipality they live in and are not revenues of Tucson Water. The total tax charged is based on a combination of State, County, and local municipal tax rates as outlined below.