surveyed by the Piqua Utilities Department<\/a>. <\/p>\nThe numbers<\/p>\n
Dayton has about 52,170 metered water connections and 51,200 metered sewer connections. The city provides water to more than 400,000 people across the Miami Valley.<\/p>\n
Dayton proposes to increase water charges by 8.5% annually in 2026, 2027 and 2028. The city plans to increase sewer rates by 9.5% next year and 9% in both 2027 and 2028. Stormwater charges could increase by 2.5% annually for the next three years.<\/p>\n
Dayton estimates that the average quarterly increase in water, sewer and stormwater charges will be about $24. <\/p>\n
Last year, residential households\u2019 average quarterly water bills were $133.25 and sewer bills were $108.40. <\/p>\n
The city increased water rates by 9% in 2023, 2024 and 2025, while sewer rates increased by 7.5% in 2023 and 2024 and 5.5% in 2025.<\/p>\n
Montgomery County recently approved 5% rate hikes for water and sewer services.<\/p>\n
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The Piqua Utilities Department conducts an annual survey of quarterly water and sewer rates, and the 2025 survey found that Dayton had the 12th lowest combined costs ($260).<\/p>\n
The jurisdictions with the least expensive combined costs were Minster ($160); Union ($211); and Butler County ($213). The most expensive were Yellow Springs ($710); Piqua ($551); and Vandalia ($493). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dayton still had the 12th lowest combined water and sewer utility costs of 70 jurisdictions that were surveyed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-311804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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