Celina Water & Sewer Tap and Impact Fees (2026)

The City of Celina provides water and wastewater service and charges the fees for connecting a new house to it. For a new single-family home with Celina’s minimum 1-inch meter, on a lot where the service lines are already in place, the published charges come to about $17,528: a $6,815 water impact fee, a $10,233 wastewater impact fee and a $480 meter fee. If the city has to make the water and sewer connections, the total rises to about $21,203. The caveat that matters most is the plat date: the current impact fees were adopted on August 12, 2025, and lots platted under the older tables pay much less. For how this compares nationally, see our guide to the cost to connect to city water.

Celina tap and connection charges at a glance

The impact fees below come from Ordinance 2025-71, passed August 12, 2025 and printed in the appendix of the city’s July 2025 Water & Wastewater Impact Fee Report. The meter, connection, boring and deposit rows come from the Master Fee Chart updated November 11, 2025. The 3/4-inch rows appear under other published fees because the fee chart sells that meter for existing meters only. The older impact-fee rows are marked for review: we read them in a report summary and a draft city worksheet, not in the ordinances.

Worked example for a single-family home in Celina

Assumptions: detached house inside Celina’s water and wastewater service area, one 1-inch meter (1.0 service unit), lot platted recently enough that the 2025 impact fees apply, no development agreement changing the fee. Impact fees from Ordinance 2025-71, Exhibit B; meter and connection fees from the Master Fee Chart (November 11, 2025).

City of Celina charges for one home, 1-inch meter. We count connection and boring fees only where the city makes the connection; the fee chart does not say when they apply.

Impact fees are 97 percent of Case A ($17,048 of $17,528). The fee chart says the standard connection fees do not include “extraordinary” costs such as street and easement repair or, for sewer, manholes; the city bills those at actual cost with an itemized list, so Case C is a floor, not a ceiling. The fee chart also lists a $200 residential water deposit per living unit, a utility-account charge that is not counted above.

The plat date changes the answer. The city’s own impact-fee worksheet (a draft, last updated September 10, 2026) asks for the lot’s plat date and uses it to pick the fee table, sorting lots into three groups:

Water plus wastewater impact fees for a single-family 1-inch meter, by plat-date group in the city’s draft worksheet.

Moving from the 2021 table to the 2025 table raised the 1-inch impact total by $7,448 ($17,048 − $9,600), or about 78 percent. One date in that table does not line up: the draft worksheet starts the 2025 group on March 12, 2025, but Ordinance 2025-71 was passed on August 12, 2025 and took effect on passage and publication. The worksheet uses one plat-date setting for roadway and water/wastewater fees alike, and none of the documents we read explains the March date. Treat the plat-date cutoffs as the draft worksheet’s, not as confirmed rules, and if your lot was platted between March 12 and August 12, 2025, ask the city which table it uses.

If the house needs a bigger meter, the fees scale with it. Under Ordinance 2025-71 a 1-1/2-inch displacement meter counts as 1.3 service units ($8,518 water and $12,791 wastewater), and the meter itself is $1,730 instead of $480.

How Celina compares with Frisco and McKinney

Published city charges for a new single-family home with services already in place. Sources are on each city’s page.

With the same 1-inch meter, Celina’s published charges are $11,290 more than McKinney’s ($17,528 − $6,238) and $12,229 more than Frisco’s ($17,528 − $5,299). The gap is almost all impact fees. Celina’s table was recalculated in 2025, while the latest Frisco and McKinney tables we found date from 2019 and 2020 and are marked for review on their pages. And the July 2025 report puts eligible water and wastewater costs, with financing, at about $1.41 billion over ten years, spread over 41,304 new service units. Tap charges are closer: McKinney’s 1-inch water plus 4-inch sewer tap is $3,080, Celina’s pair $3,675.

Costs outside the Celina fee schedule

• Roadway impact fees. Celina also charges roadway impact fees, based on a January 2025 study and set by roadway service area. We have not recorded them here; the city’s impact fee page links the worksheet and service-area map.
• Other building-permit charges for new one- and two-family homes, such as the $1,500-per-unit park improvement fee in the Master Fee Chart.
• Water service line from the meter to the house. National estimate $30–$150 per foot including trenching, typically about $50. See water service line cost.
• Sewer lateral on your lot. National estimate $50–$250 per foot including trenching, typically about $100. See sewer lateral cost.
• Plumbing permit and inspections, national estimate $100–$1,300 for the plumbing portion.
• Electric service. Where CoServ Electric serves the address, its tariff charges a $40 connect fee and, since November 1, 2024, no membership fee. Line extensions follow the co-op’s line extension policy. Check which electric utility serves your lot.

National figures are estimates from our benchmark set. The calculator adds your line lengths to Celina’s published fees:

Paying Celina fees: timing and process

The Master Fee Chart lists impact fees among the building permit fees for new one- and two-family dwellings, noting the amount “may vary with agreement”, so a development agreement can change what a builder pays. The city installs meters up to 2 inches. Taps and meters larger than 2 inches, and sewer taps larger than 4 inches, must be installed by the contractor, and larger meters need a vault built to the city’s engineering standards. The documents we read do not give wait times for connections or meter sets.

Celina fee changes to watch

• Impact fees were reset by Ordinance 2025-71 on August 12, 2025. Texas requires the land-use assumptions and capital plan behind them to be updated at least every five years, so the next required update falls around 2030.
• Fee chart: the Master Fee Chart we used was updated November 11, 2025. Celina updates it from time to time, so check for a newer version before you pay.
• The city’s impact-fee worksheet is labeled a draft (updated September 10, 2026). The plat-date groups on this page come from it and could change.

Celina tap fee FAQ

Related: Texas utility connection costs by city · McKinney fees · Frisco fees · tap fee vs. impact fee · water tap fees · sewer tap fees · utility connection cost calculator

Sources for Celina figures

• Water & Wastewater Impact Fee Report (July 2025), including Ordinance No. 2025-71 and Exhibit B, City of Celina (checked Sep 25, 2026)
• Master Fee Chart, updated November 11, 2025, City of Celina (checked Sep 25, 2026)
• Impact Fee Worksheet (draft, updated Sep 10, 2026), City of Celina (checked Sep 25, 2026)
• Impact Fees, City of Celina (checked Sep 25, 2026)
• Tariff for Electric Service, CoServ Electric (checked Sep 25, 2026)