Sunnyvale FY2026/27 Commercial Water and Wastewater Rates: Adopted Strength-Class Bill Guide
Sunnyvale’s adopted FY2026/27 schedule sets commercial water at $6.53 per CCF and wastewater at $7.49 to $14.28 per CCF by strength class, with fixed and alternate lines separate.
Direct answer
Sunnyvale File 26-0149 passed June 16, and the FY2026/27 utility schedule took effect July 1. Commercial water is $6.53 per CCF; wastewater is $7.49, $8.28, or $14.28 per CCF by strength class. Confirm the account’s actual class, cadence, fixed service, alternate meters, and billed wastewater quantity before applying a variable-volume model.
Adopted
Current status
File 26-0149 passed June 16; effective July 1
$6.53
Commercial water
Per CCF; fixed meter service is separate
$7.49–$14.28
Wastewater range
Per CCF across low, standard, and high strength
$182.61
Two-inch water base
Per month, or $365.22 across two months
Adopted account and bill-line map
Water service, wastewater strength, and billing cadence select the applicable lines
The adopted schedule contains distinct potable-water, recycled-water, fixed-service, wastewater-strength, fireline, landscape, solid-waste, and industrial paths. The declared example uses only commercial potable-water volume and standard-strength wastewater volume.
- Account or bill fact
- Commercial potable-water volume
- FY2026/27 adopted treatment
- $6.53 per CCF
- What remains to verify
- The actual potable-water meter and billed quantity. Do not transfer this rate to recycled service.
- Account or bill fact
- Two-inch commercial water service
- FY2026/27 adopted treatment
- $182.61 per month or $365.22 across two months
- What remains to verify
- Meter size and cadence. This fixed line stays outside the variable subtotal.
- Account or bill fact
- Recycled water
- FY2026/27 adopted treatment
- $5.88 per CCF on its own schedule
- What remains to verify
- Whether the account has a recycled-water meter or separately billed landscape service.
- Account or bill fact
- Low-strength wastewater
- FY2026/27 adopted treatment
- $7.49 per CCF
- What remains to verify
- Use only when the actual account classification confirms low strength.
- Account or bill fact
- Standard-strength wastewater
- FY2026/27 adopted treatment
- $8.28 per CCF
- What remains to verify
- The declared model uses this class, but property type does not establish it.
- Account or bill fact
- High-strength wastewater
- FY2026/27 adopted treatment
- $14.28 per CCF
- What remains to verify
- Use only when the actual account classification confirms high strength.
- Account or bill fact
- Fireline, landscape, solid waste, and significant-industrial lines
- FY2026/27 adopted treatment
- Separate fixed, alternate, or account-specific schedules
- What remains to verify
- Read each printed line and confirm the City’s classification; none enters this model.
Transparent status correction
The retained June 22 guide now reflects the passed council action
Official source fact: Sunnyvale’s File 26-0149 is marked Passed for the June 16, 2026 City Council meeting. Its action title adopts FY2026/27 water, wastewater, and solid-waste utility rates, and the official schedule took effect July 1.
This page keeps its original June 22 publication date and records the August 10 status correction. The reviewed evidence does not establish a final executed resolution number, vote count, or signature, so none is stated.
Adopted water paths
Commercial potable water, recycled water, and fixed service remain separate
Official source fact: the adopted schedule lists commercial potable water at $6.53 per CCF and recycled water at $5.88 per CCF. Meter-size commercial water service is fixed; a two-inch service is $182.61 monthly or $365.22 for a two-month cycle.
Confirm whether the account uses potable, recycled, landscape, or fireline service and whether the bill is monthly or two-month. A lower potable-water quantity does not by itself change a fixed meter service or prove how an alternate meter behaves.
Wastewater-strength decision
The actual low, standard, or high-strength classification controls the wastewater rate
Official source fact: the schedule lists low-strength wastewater at $7.49 per CCF, standard strength at $8.28, and high strength at $14.28. Significant industrial treatment and other account-specific lines remain separate.
A restaurant, laundry, car wash, hotel, office, industrial site, multifamily property, or campus cannot select a wastewater rate from property type alone. The printed classification or City confirmation controls, along with the billed wastewater quantity.
Declared assumptions
The model is two-month, potable-water, standard-strength, and variable-only
Smart Valve analysis compares 400 CCF with 320 CCF across one two-month period. It assumes commercial potable water and standard-strength wastewater are both billed on those quantities. The 80-CCF change is not transferred to a low-, high-, recycled-, landscape-, fireline-, solid-waste-, or significant-industrial path.
Actual meter and cadence, potable versus recycled or landscape service, wastewater strength and billed quantity, significant-industrial status, outside-boundary treatment, other printed lines, technical feasibility, and final executed-resolution details remain unknown until account or official evidence confirms them.
Smart Valve arithmetic — declared variable lines
Two-month standard-strength model: 400 CCF compared with 320 CCF
The example applies the adopted $6.53 commercial potable-water rate and $8.28 standard-strength wastewater rate to both stated quantities. The fixed two-inch water service and all alternate or account-specific lines stay outside the variable subtotal.
| Included variable line | 400 CCF | 320 CCF | Modeled difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial water — $6.53 per CCF | $2,612.00 | $2,089.60 | $522.40 |
| Standard-strength wastewater — $8.28 per CCF | $3,312.00 | $2,649.60 | $662.40 |
| Declared variable subtotal | $5,924.00 | $4,739.20 | $1,184.80 |
The modeled two-month variable-line difference is $1,184.80; it is not a complete bill or promised saving. The $365.22 two-month two-inch water base remains unchanged and excluded. Recycled water, fireline, landscape, solid waste, industrial charges, other wastewater classes, other fixed lines, actual account treatment, and technical feasibility remain excluded or unknown.
Decision checklist
What to check first on the bill
- 1Confirm File 26-0149’s passed status and use the July 1 effective schedule for the service period under review.
- 2Record the actual meter size and whether the bill is monthly or two-month before using a fixed service amount.
- 3Separate commercial potable water from recycled, landscape, and fireline service.
- 4Confirm the account’s low, standard, or high wastewater strength; do not infer it from property type.
- 5Verify the billed wastewater quantity instead of assuming it always equals potable-water volume.
- 6Keep fixed water service, solid waste, significant-industrial, alternate-meter, adjustment, and every other printed line outside the variable subtotal.
- 7Review technical feasibility only after the applicable usage-linked lines are reproducible from the actual bill.
Scope boundary
Where Smart Valve realistically fits
Smart Valve may be relevant when the account has technically addressable metered potable-water volume and the verified wastewater basis changes with that volume. The actual meter, cadence, strength class, wastewater quantity, site conditions, and feasible operating change must be established first.
Smart Valve does not change Sunnyvale’s fixed service, rate class, wastewater-strength assignment, recycled or landscape service, fireline, solid-waste, industrial, adjustment, or policy lines. The $1,184.80 model is a bounded variable-exposure comparison, not a guarantee.
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Review source and status-correction discipline
See how official status, rate facts, Smart Valve arithmetic, assumptions, exclusions, and unknowns remain separate.
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Collect meter, cadence, potable or recycled service, wastewater strength and quantity, fixed fees, and other printed lines.
Compare Santa Clara without transferring its tariff
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Review usage-reduction decisions after classifying the bill
Move from the local strength and fixed-line decision to qualified operating checks.
Use the calculator only as a directional screen
The general tool does not reproduce Sunnyvale wastewater strength, fixed service, or alternate-meter treatment.
Primary source trail
Sources and retrieval details
Published: City Council meeting June 16, 2026; Effective: July 1, 2026; Status checked: August 10, 2026; Retrieved: August 10, 2026
Controlling official action record showing Passed status for adoption of FY2026/27 water, wastewater, and solid-waste utility rates.
Published: FY2026/27 schedule considered with File 26-0149; Effective: July 1, 2026; Status checked: August 10, 2026; Retrieved: August 10, 2026
Official rate table paired with the later passed action record; source for commercial water, recycled water, meter-size service, and wastewater strength-class amounts.
Source URL: https://www.sunnyvale.ca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/6529/639136567554170000 (opens in a new tab)
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