Water Rates
How Your NCWD Water Rates are Determined:
To aid in your understanding of how your water rate amounts are determined from month to month, we will explain the Water Availability Charge and Usage Tiers that are used when calculating your monthly water bill. Included for reference are various examples based on average usage and meter size within the District.
Water Availability Charge:
Every District customer is assigned a base monthly charge. The base charge is determined by the size of your existing water meter. You can find your meter size by viewing the face of your meter, or by referencing the “Meter Size” field located on your monthly bill.
Example: The typical residential meter size within the District is a ¾” meter. A customer with such a meter is billed a water availability charge of $17.04 a month, regardless of how much water is used.
Other Charges Based on Water Consumption:
Energy Charge is for the electricity and gas required to pump water. The Charge is based on water consumption.
Infrastructure Charge is a Replacement Surcharge for necessary upgrades to existing water storage, production and delivery facilities.
CLWA Surcharge is a Surcharge for the purchased water from Castaic Lake Water Agency.
 

 
Note: One unit of water is equal to 748 gallons or 100 cubic feet
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Water Availability Charges
Meter Size
Meter Charge
3/4"
$17.04
1"
$28.44
1 1/2"
$56.72
2"
$90.77
2 1/2"
$136.26
3"
$170.32
4"
$283.92
6"
$567.65
8"
$908.28
10"
$1305.78
12"
$1873.53
Other charges based on Water Consumption
Energy
Infrastructure
CLWA Surcharge
$.31 per unit
$.089 per unit
$.131 per unit
 
 
Water Consumption Rates:
All Accounts other than Individually Metered Residential Accounts
$ .968 per unit of water
 
Tiered Rate Structure for Individually Metered Residential Accounts only:
Newhall County Water District’s tiered rate structure was adopted July 21, 2004 and became effective January 2005. It is designed to promote water use efficiency and conservation. The current water rate structure is a four-tier increasing block structure.  This means as a customer’s usage increases, the incremental rates increase accordingly within the four-tiered structure based on meter size.
 
Tiered Rates
 
For rate comparison examples click on any meter size in the chart below.
Tier
Rate
3/4" Meter
1" Meter
1 1/2" Meter
2" Meter
1
$.80
1-8 Units
1-14 Units
1-26 Units
1-42 Units
2
$.88
9-25 Units
15-40 Units
27-80 Units
43-128 Units
3
$1.10
26-48 Units
41-80 Units
81-160 Units
129-256 Units
4
$1.456
49+ Units
81+ Units
161+ Units
257+ Units