{"id":123445,"date":"2026-01-14T22:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/123445\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T22:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:59:08","slug":"colleyville-residents-will-see-a-water-wastewater-rate-increase-starting-feb-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/123445\/","title":{"rendered":"Colleyville residents will see a water, wastewater rate increase starting Feb. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWater and wastewater rates will increase after Colleyville City Council approves the proposal from the Trinity River Authority<\/a>, which provides water treatment for the city.<\/p>\n

The rates were discussed during the Jan. 6 council meeting<\/a>. It’s a \u201cstraight pass-through,” meaning Council has to pass the new rate, Colleyville Finance Director Cassie Smith said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing we can really do about it,\u201d Mayor Bobby Lindamood said. \u201cWe could vote no but it\u2019s not gonna do much.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s happening?<\/p>\n

The water rate will be $6.66 per 1,000 gallons, which is a 6.63% increase from the 2025 water rate, Smith said. The new wastewater rate will be $4.79 per 1,000 gallons, which is nearly an 11% increase.<\/p>\n

The new water rate is based on the volume of treated water used, and the new wastewater rate is based on the volume of wastewater treated, per city documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Diving deeper<\/p>\n

The volumetric rate is a separate component of the base rate that council approved in September<\/a>, per previous reporting.<\/p>\n

A customer’s total bill<\/a> will include the volumetric rate for water and wastewater, the water and wastewater base rates and a monthly Capital Improvement Projects rate, which is a separate base rate used to fund capital projects with cash and avoid debt, according to city documents.<\/p>\n

The water base rate for residential customers is $18.24 for 1-inch meters, which is a $0.60 increase from fiscal year 2024-25, per previous reporting. The water base rate for out-of-city customers is $22.24 for 1-inch meters.<\/p>\n

The wastewater base rate for residential customers is $15.49 for 1-inch meters, which is a $1.07 increase from last fiscal year, according to city documents. For nonresidential customers, the base rate is $21.49 for 1-inch meters.<\/p>\n

The capital projects rate is $5.83 per month for 1-inch meters for both in-city and out-of-city customers, per city documents.<\/p>\n

The base rate for water and wastewater became effective Oct. 1, Smith said. Since the Trinity River Authority has a different fiscal year than the city, its new volumetric rates come in after the base rate is approved by council members.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n

Council will look at this item again at the Jan. 20 meeting for a vote, and the new volumetric water and wastewater rate will go into effect Feb. 1.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Water and wastewater rates will increase after Colleyville City Council approves the proposal from the Trinity River Authority,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2814,1351,116,118,117,21011,2349,45926,53512,53511,53513,12911,410],"class_list":{"0":"post-123445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-charges","9":"tag-colleyville","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","12":"tag-fort-worth-news","13":"tag-increase","14":"tag-money","15":"tag-tra","16":"tag-trinity-river-authority","17":"tag-utility-bill","18":"tag-volumetric-rate","19":"tag-wastewater","20":"tag-water"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}