Sparks water and sewer rates
Who supplies water to Sparks houses, what it costs, and how the sewer charge works.
Truckee Meadows Water Authority (TMWA)
TMWA Residential Metered Water Service (Rate Schedule RMWS) for a single-family home: a customer charge of $21.87 per billing period for a 3/4-inch meter plus a charge per 1,000 gallons in three tiers (0 to 6,000, 6,001 to 25,000, and over 25,000 gallons per billing period); Sparks customers also pay a 5% right-of-way toll and a 1.5% regional water management fee on the bill
| Use a month | Price per 1,000 gallons |
|---|---|
| Fixed charge | $23.31 a month |
| 0 to 6 thousand gallons | $2.34 |
| 6 to 25 thousand gallons | $3.52 |
| 25 to more | $4.68 |
- Source
- The Truckee River provides more than 80 percent of TMWA's annual customer demand; the rest is groundwater from within its service area.
- Violations
- TMWA had no violations during the 2025 calendar year.
- Lead
- TMWA is determined to be a non-lead system; 2025 lead testing at consumer taps found no sites over the 15 ppb action level (highest result 3.9 ppb).
- PFAS
- In EPA's UCMR5 monitoring reported for 2025, the highest PFOS result was 0.0053 ppb and the highest PFHxS result 0.014 ppb.
Sewer
The City of Sparks bills residential sewer customers at the beginning of each quarter; its sewer page set the quarterly rate on all residential accounts at $125.93 per unit from July 1, 2022, and the City Council approved a 6% increase in sewer user fees starting April 2026.
Pay or manage it
Sources
- TMWA: water rates explained
- TMWA 2026 Water Quality Report (2025 data)
- City of Sparks sewer services (archived 2022)
- 2News: Sparks City Council approves sewer rate hike (Jan 2026)
- 2News: Sparks Council approves sewer rate increases (Mar 2026)
- KOLO: Sparks sewer rate study (Dec 2025)
Checked October 21, 2026. Every number here comes from the public sources listed, matched by our checker.
Rates change every year; this page shows when it was last checked. Nothing here is legal, tax or insurance advice.