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Water Meter Fee

Charged on new development in Sacramento. Authorized under the Mitigation Fee Act - Gov. Code Sec. 66000 et seq.

What one house pays

$723

For a typical home: a 2,000 sq ft detached house on a 0.13 acre lot, on a new subdivision lot.

Share of Sacramento's total: 1%

Total one-time fees here: $60,437

Adjustment: Not recorded

The record

What it pays for

“Water Meter Fee – pays water meter costs”

CDD-0246 Residential Fee Estimate (New Construction), Revised 07-12-2026, "Fee Notes", p. 2 · source document ↗

Where it applies

“The Department of Utilities is responsible for operating and maintaining the public water system within the City Service Area (roughly 95% of the geographical area of the City together with limited areas outside of the City limits). The balance of the City residents and businesses are served by various other water purveyors.”

Department of Utilities Onsite Design Manual, Rev. 09/01/2026, s. 5 Water Services, p. 22 · source document ↗

Every published rate

Every rate below applies to single-family detached.

Rate	Basis	Effective	Amount
this home	per DU	12 Jul 2026	$723.00
“Water Meter Fee (1 inch) 723.00 723.00 723.00 723.00” CDD-0246 Residential Fee Estimate (New Construction), Revised 07-12-2026, fee table, row "Water Meter Fee (1 inch)", figures shown under the 1,000 / 1,500 / 2,000 / 2,500 sq ft dwelling columns in that order · source document ↗

Source documents

–Adopting resolution not found
–Nexus study not found
–Annual fee report (AB 1600) not found
↗Published fee schedule
↗Official boundary map

Not found means we couldn’t locate it, not that it doesn’t exist. Every linked document is archived here, so a dead link isn’t a dead citation.

Where this comes from

Facts with a quoted source: 2 of 10 record fields
How sure we are: Low
Read on: 13 Sep 2026
Kind of document: Adopted fee schedule
Jurisdiction: Sacramento

What “low” means, and what this fee rests on

High: We read this straight from the document that sets the fee: the city's ordinance, the council resolution, or the official fee schedule. This is the strongest kind of source, because the number and the rule come from the agency that charges it, in its own words.
Medium: We read this from an official document, but not the one that sets the fee. It might be a staff report, a study the fee was based on, or another agency's summary of it. These are usually right, but they can lag behind a change or describe a fee differently from the document that sets it. We also use medium when the agency's own documents disagree with each other.
Low: We could not find this in a current official document. It may come from an older version of the schedule, a secondary source, or from how the agency appears to apply the fee in practice. Treat it as a lead and check with the agency before relying on it.
Derived: Not read from a document at all. Filled in from the type of fee, such as which law authorizes it. Shown separately so it is never mistaken for a quotation.

On this page

What it pays for · LowCDD-0246 Residential Fee Estimate (New Construction), Revised 07-12-2026, "Fee Notes", p. 2
Where it applies · LowDepartment of Utilities Onsite Design Manual, Rev. 09/01/2026, s. 5 Water Services, p. 22
What law authorizes it · Derivedderived: instrument lookup

The same four levels, on the Methodology page.

Cite this page

Source: Development Fee Index, via DevFeeFinder · retrieved 13 Sep 2026

Development Fee Index, “Water Meter Fee, Sacramento”. Figures retrieved 13 Sep 2026 from the documents listed above.

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About these figures

Quoted, not summarized. Every amount and fact on this page is copied from the official document it links to. If we couldn’t find something in a document, we leave it blank instead of guessing.

Before any discounts. Some fees offer credits, waivers or phase-ins. They’re listed above but not subtracted, because whether you qualify depends on your project.

Check the date. Fees change. This page shows what was in force on the date at the top, with a link to the document that set it, so you can confirm the current amount yourself. How all of this is put together.

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