Water Costs

Maple Grove uses part of our water bills to pay for Met Council and city of Maple Grove sewer line maintenance. After 13 years without an increase, this cost recently went up, from $16.50/qtr sewer base fee to $21/qtr.

Note that a "typical" Maple Grove home uses 23,000 gallons of water per quarter

Starting with the water bills mailed in February 2012, Maple Grove will implement a sliding scale for water usage fees. These sliding fee scales are already in use in other Twin City suburbs and are in response to new legislation from the MN DNR that requires cities to encourage water conservation.

Quarterly Water fees will be:
0-10,000 gallons -- $9 flat fee
10,000-20,000 gallons -- $0.90 per 1000 gallons
20,000-40,000 gallons -- $1.25 per 1000 gallons
40,000+ gallons -- $1.75 per 1000 gallons

This is in addition to the sewer base fee of $21/quarter and sewer disposal fee of $1.85 per 1000 gallons of water usage.

Maple Grove's wells are in good shape with no shortage of water predicted. The city is hoping to encourage our residents to conserve water through the sliding fee scale for water usage but contrary to some neighboring cities, there are no sprinkling bans being considered.