Pflugerville Water & Wastewater Impact Fees (2026)

Inside most of the city, the City of Pflugerville’s utility billing department supplies water and wastewater, and its impact fee is the biggest line item by far. For a new single-family home with the standard 5/8-inch meter, the fee schedule in force since January 10, 2023 adds up to $16,529 if the lot is in Wastewater Service Area 1, or $30,349 if it’s in Wastewater Service Area 2: a $14,713 water impact fee, a $1,316 or $15,136 wastewater impact fee, and $250 water and $250 wastewater tap fees. The single biggest caveat is that wastewater service area, not meter size or plat date, drives most of the swing — Area 2 costs $13,820 more than Area 1 for the identical house — and the city cannot tell you which area you’re in without your address. A second caveat: not every Pflugerville-area address is a City of Pflugerville customer. Part of the area is served by Manville Water Supply Corporation, and several subdivisions are billed by a private operator, Crossroads Utility Service, for water control and improvement districts and a municipal utility district.

Official Pflugerville fees in one table

The table below lists every Pflugerville-area row in our database, each linked to its source. The water impact fee is charged at one citywide “Undesignated” rate per Service Unit; the wastewater impact fee is not — it is split into Service Area 1 and Service Area 2, and your address determines which one applies. A bigger meter costs more because the city’s Service Unit table multiplies the per-unit rate: a 5/8-inch meter is 1.0 Service Unit, a 3/4-inch meter is 1.7, and a 1-inch meter is 2.7. Rows from Manville Water Supply Corporation are a separate provider and never combine with the city’s fees for the same connection.

Worked example for a single-family home in Pflugerville

Assumptions: detached house, City of Pflugerville water and wastewater, standard 5/8-inch meter (1.0 Service Unit). Figures are from the city’s Impact Fees schedule, reference Ordinance No. 1577-23-01-10, effective January 10, 2023.

Pflugerville water and wastewater charges for one home with a 5/8-inch meter, by wastewater service area.

Adjustments:

• Bigger meter. A 3/4-inch meter is 1.7 Service Units, so the water impact fee rises to 1.7 × $14,713 = $25,012.10 and the wastewater impact fee to 1.7 × $1,316 = $2,237.20 (Area 1) or 1.7 × $15,136 = $25,731.20 (Area 2). Add the same $500 in taps. That is arithmetic from the published per-Service-Unit rate and the city’s own Service Unit table, not a separate figure the city prints for a 3/4-inch connection.
• Water Meter Deposit. The schedule also lists a flat $125 water meter deposit. We leave it out of the total above because it reads as a refundable account deposit rather than a construction charge, the same way we treat account deposits on other city pages.

If Manville Water Supply Corporation serves your address

Part of the Pflugerville/Hutto area is inside Manville Water Supply Corporation’s certificated service area, not the city’s. Manville is a member-owned, nonprofit water supply corporation regulated by the Texas Public Utility Commission, with its own fee schedule under its Master Tariff. Where Manville is your water provider, the City of Pflugerville water rows above don’t apply to you.

• Capital Recovery Fee (Manville’s name for its impact fee): $12,071 for a 5/8-inch meter, $18,106.50 for 3/4-inch, $24,142 for 1-inch, effective June 15, 2023.
• Meter Setting Fee, charged in addition to install the meter: $1,625 for 5/8-inch, $1,860 for 3/4-inch, $1,955 for 1-inch, effective April 1, 2025.
• Membership Fee $100 and Inspection Fee $75, both one-time and required before service starts.

Adding those for a 5/8-inch meter comes to $12,071 + $1,625 + $100 + $75 = $13,871 for Manville water alone — before any City of Pflugerville wastewater impact fee and tap fee on the same house, if the city provides sewer to that lot. A 2026 independent audit of the city’s own impact-fee collections flagged several historical entries, from 2017 and 2020, where part of a fee “should have been paid to Manville WSC” instead of the city — a sign that some addresses have split providers and that the fee that applies to your specific lot is worth confirming with both utilities before you budget. Manville’s own tariff PDF and its Rates & Fees page list the same dollar figures, which is why we’re comfortable publishing them despite Manville not being a Pflugerville city document.

If your subdivision is a MUD or WCID

The City of Pflugerville’s own utility billing site lists Lakeside WCID 1, 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D, Lakeside MUD 3, and Kelly Lane WCID 1 and 2 as “District Customers” whose water, wastewater, trash and recycling are billed by a private operator, Crossroads Utility Service (512-246-1400 ext. 2), not by the city or by Manville. We did not find a published tap or impact fee schedule for Crossroads or for these districts, so none is shown here — do not assume the City of Pflugerville figures above apply if your subdivision is on this list; call Crossroads or your builder to confirm the district’s own charges.

Costs outside the Pflugerville fee schedule

The city’s and Manville’s charges stop at the meter and the sewer tap. Work on your side of that connection is separate:

• Water service line from the meter to the house. National estimate $30–$150 per foot installed, typically about $50; a 60-foot run is about $3,000. See water service line cost.
• Sewer lateral from the house to the tap. National estimate $50–$250 per foot, typically about $100; a 60-foot lateral is about $6,000. See sewer lateral cost.
• Rock. A trench that hits rock costs 2.5×–7× normal soil (national estimate). See utility trenching cost.
• Building and plumbing permits, separate from utility fees. National estimate for a plumbing permit is $100–$1,300.

National figures are estimates from our benchmark set, not Pflugerville quotes. To combine Pflugerville’s official fees with your own line lengths:

How and when Pflugerville fees are paid

The impact fees are levied under Texas Local Government Code Chapter 395, and the city’s collections are audited for compliance with LGC §395.059 (a required review every three years). The published fee schedule doesn’t say whether the fee is assessed at plat, permit, or meter connection, and we couldn’t find Pflugerville’s own code chapter in a readable form this session — so, unlike our Georgetown and Kyle pages, we aren’t stating a specific collection trigger here. Confirm timing with the city’s utility billing or engineering office before you budget around it. Manville customers pay its Capital Recovery Fee, Meter Setting Fee, Membership Fee and Inspection Fee before Manville installs a meter, per its Master Tariff.

Pflugerville fee changes to watch

• A new impact-fee ordinance is being written. On August 3, 2026, Pflugerville’s Capital Improvement Advisory Committee approved the land-use assumptions, capital improvement plan and growth rates that will underlie a revised water and wastewater impact-fee ordinance, and forwarded that framework to City Council. As of September 25, 2026, no new dollar amounts had been reported adopted, so the $14,713 / $1,316 / $15,136 rates above remain current — but they are due for a Council vote that could raise them. Recheck this page or the city’s utility billing office before relying on these numbers for a purchase closing months out.
• The current schedule is already three years old. It took effect January 10, 2023 and, unusually, the city’s own May 8, 2026 independent audit confirms it is still the rate in force, rather than showing a newer one — which is exactly why a rewrite is now underway.

How Pflugerville compares with Austin, Kyle and Georgetown

Pflugerville’s range is wide because of its two wastewater service areas. With a 5/8-inch meter in Service Area 1, its $16,529 is double Austin Water’s $8,119 for a lot platted after October 1, 2023, but below Kyle’s $20,470 for its current plat-date tier. In Service Area 2, Pflugerville’s $30,349 is the highest of the four, ahead of Georgetown’s $24,493.50 for a 3/4-inch meter at Phase 2 rates (Georgetown has no 5/8-inch connection). All four charge a Texas Local Government Code Chapter 395 impact fee as the largest component, and all four vary by a date or zone the buyer doesn’t control — plat date in Austin and Georgetown, plat-date tier in Kyle, wastewater service area in Pflugerville.

Pflugerville tap fee FAQ

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Pflugerville fee sources

• Impact Fees (Water and Wastewater Impact Fees, Water Meter Deposit, and Tap Fees), reference Ordinance No. 1577-23-01-10, City of Pflugerville, effective Jan 10, 2023 (checked Sep 25, 2026)
• Independent Accountant’s Report on Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures on the City’s Water and Wastewater Impact Fees, Oct 1, 2014–Sep 30, 2025, City of Pflugerville, dated May 8, 2026 (checked Sep 25, 2026)
• Capital Improvement Advisory Committee meeting record, Aug 3, 2026, City of Pflugerville (checked Sep 25, 2026)
• Master Tariff, Manville Water Supply Corporation (checked Sep 25, 2026)
• Rates & Fees, Manville Water Supply Corporation (checked Sep 25, 2026)
• District Customers, City of Pflugerville Public Works / Utility Billing (checked Sep 25, 2026)