Our Commitment
We are committed to providing high-quality drinking water, managing storm water, collecting and treating wastewater, and lighting our city’s streets. These critical services are essential in our daily lives and keep our city running, our communities healthy, and our economy growing.
To ensure we continue to provide high-quality service requires careful and thoughtful planning and important investments in infrastructure. This is reflected in Salt Lake City Department of Public Utilities’ annual budget process and our proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2022-2023. Over the last several years, Public Utilities and City leaders have developed multi-year strategies of improving aging infrastructure, including several years of gradual rate increases, bonds, and loans to finance hundreds of millions of dollars of critical investment of critical infrastructure.
This year we are proposing rate increases for water, wastewater, and stormwater service. There will be no rate increase for street lighting.
Why Rate Changes?
Rate changes are needed to fund the repair and replacement of aging infrastructure, make existing infrastructure resilient, ensure infrastructure and processes meet new standards and requirements, and to ensure our infrastructure can keep up with the demand. The following are specific projects we are focused on:
- Building a new Water Reclamation Facility (sewage treatment). This project started in 2019 and will be completed in 2025.
- Upgrading and replacing water, sewer, and stormwater pipelines.
- Repair and eventual replacement of drinking-water treatment plants.
- Ongoing asset management, and compliance with new water quality regulations.
Rate changes allow us to provide quality and reliable services.
How Will The Proposed Rate Changes Affect Customers?
SLCDPU rates are based on water use and the cost to provide services. Rates vary, depending on customer type: residential, commercial, and industrial, as well as the amount of water used. Below are the rate increases that went into effect on 7/1/2022.
Wastewater
Planned rate increase of 15% for Salt Lake City residential customers.
| Usage (average winter water use) | Proposed Monthly Rate Increase |
| City Customers – 4 CCF | $3.08 |
| City Customers – 8 CCF | $6.16 |
Water
Planned increase of 15% for Salt Lake City residential customers.
| Usage | Proposed Monthly Rate Increase |
| City Customers – 3/4″ Meter 8 CCF | $3.35 |
Stormwater
Planned increase of 15% for Salt Lake City residential customers.
| Usage | Proposed Monthly Rate Increase |
| City Customers – Based on Equivalent Residential Unit (ERU), Single and Duplex <.25 Acre | $0..90 per ERU |
