Understanding Your Bill
Leavenworth Waterworks bills customers monthly for water, sewer, and trash services.
Below is an example of a typical residential bill.
- Account Number: Use it to set up your online account.
- Service Address: Location where water service was provided.
- Amount Owed: The amount of your previous bill.
- Adjustments: Any credits or fees applied to the bill will show here.
- Payments Received: How much you paid on the previous bill.
- Prior Balance: How much, if any, you still owe from your previous bill.
- State Water Plan: A tax required by and transfered to the state of Kansas.
- Sewer: The sewer charge is set by the City of Leavenworth and based on the average water used from January to March.
All new customers receive a sewer charge based on city average of 7 CCF. - Water: The amount due for water usage and the only revenue kept by Leavenworth Waterworks. Water rates are set by the Leavenworth Waterworks Board.
- Refuse: The city refuse/trash charge is set by the City Commissioners of the City of Leavenworth and is the same amount for every household.
- Total Due Now: The total amount due on your account, including both current and previous balances.
- Due Date: The date your current bill is due. This date does not replace any earlier due dates for previous balances.
- Meter Number: The unique identifying number for the address's meter, the device that measures water usage.
- Previous Read: The meter's previous reading at the end of the last service period.
- Current Read: The meter's current reading at the end of this service period. If an "E" appears after this number, the meter reading was estimated.
- Usage: Amount of water usage being billed. It is calculated by subtracting the Current Read from the Previous Read and shown in CCF (100 cubic feet).
(1 CCF unit = 748 gallons)
- After Due Date Pay: This is the amount you will owe after the Due Date, equaling the original Total Due plus a 5% late fee.
