Provo City Water, Sewer and Provo Power Connection and Impact Fees (2026)

Provo City’s Public Works Department supplies culinary (drinking) water and sewer service inside the city, and Provo Power is the city’s own electric utility. A new single-family home on a standard lot (0.15 to 0.3 acre) with a 3/4-inch water meter and a 200-amp single-phase electric service pays about $12,587 in city water and sewer connection and impact fees, plus about $2,990 for Provo Power’s connection and impact fees, for a combined total near $15,577. The single largest item is the $7,622.10 water impact fee, part of a schedule that already sets the rate for every July 1 through 2033. For how this compares nationally, see our guide to the cost to connect to city water.

Provo connection fees at a glance

The rows below come from Provo City’s Consolidated Fee Schedule, part of the Provo City Code and current through Ordinance 2026-17 (passed June 9, 2026): the Impact Fees chapter for the water, sewer and power impact fees, the Culinary Water section for the water connection (meter-only) fee, and the Energy section for Provo Power’s service connection fee. The water impact fee is set by lot size (Small Lot under 0.15 acre, or Standard Lot 0.15 to 0.3 acre) rather than meter size, and it already has a published rate for every July 1 through 2033; the amount below is the one effective July 1, 2026. Provo Power charges two separate residential connection charges: a flat Service Connection Fee for any single-phase service up to 400 amps, and a Power Impact Fee priced per amp, shown here at the common 200-amp size. Provo does not publish a separate sewer tap or connection fee – the sewer impact fee is the only city charge tied to a new sewer connection.

Worked example: a new home in Provo

Assumptions: a detached single-family home inside Provo on city water and sewer, a 3/4-inch water meter, and one Provo Power single-phase 200-amp electric service with one meter. The two columns show how lot size changes the water impact fee.

Provo water, sewer and power connection and impact fees for one new home (fee schedule current through Ordinance 2026-17, passed June 9, 2026)

Three choices move the total. A 1-inch water meter costs $545.00 to connect instead of $515.00, adding $30. A 100-amp electric service has an $875.00 power impact fee instead of $1,750.00, saving $875; a 400-amp service raises the impact fee to $3,501.00, adding $1,751. The Service Connection Fee itself stays $1,240.00 for any single-phase service from 0 to 400 amps regardless of exact amperage – Provo Power does not tier that particular charge the way it tiers the impact fee.

How Provo compares with Lehi, St. George and Salt Lake City

Provo’s total of $15,577.36 sits between the other Utah cities on this site. Lehi comes to about $13,680.10 with a 200-amp power connection, $1,897 less than Provo, even though Lehi also charges for a separate pressurized-irrigation system that Provo does not have. St. George is far higher, at $26,961 with power, mostly because of a $17,266 regional water district fee (WCWCD) that Provo has no equivalent of. Salt Lake City currently charges about $3,080, $12,497 less than Provo, under its June 2026 schedule, which does not include an electric utility connection fee; Salt Lake City has proposed new impact fees that would raise its own total to about $12,130, still $3,447 less than Provo’s $15,577.36. Unlike St. George and Salt Lake City, Provo bundles no regional water-district or drainage charge into these figures – Provo’s total is entirely city-collected water, sewer and power fees.

What Provo’s fees don’t cover

The fees above pay for capacity in Provo’s water, sewer and power systems, the water meter itself, and the Provo Power service connection. They do not cover the pipe on your lot, the trench, the plumbing permit, the building permit, or necessarily the line from the transformer to your meter base. National estimates (methodology), which include trenching:

• Water service line: $30-$150 per foot, typical $50. At 50 feet, about $2,500. Provo’s connection fee explicitly “includes furnishing and setting the meter only,” so this line is a separate, private cost.
• Sewer lateral: $50-$250 per foot, typical $100. At 50 feet, about $5,000. Provo publishes no sewer lateral installation or tap fee at all, only the impact fee above.
• Street cut or bore: $1,000-$10,000 per crossing, typical $4,000. This applies only if Provo itself must extend a water main to reach the lot, billed separately at $150 per linear foot; most lots in a finished subdivision already have mains in place.
• Underground electric service from the transformer to the meter base: $6-$30 per foot, typical $15. The fee schedule does not say whether Provo Power’s Service Connection Fee includes this line or only covers setting the meter on an existing line; confirm with Provo Power for your address.

Provo’s Consolidated Fee Schedule also lists impact fees this page does not cover: a Park Impact Fee of $3,105.10 and a Road Impact Fee of $1,293.06 (both per one-family dwelling, no stated escalation), a Public Safety Impact Fee of $647.97 effective July 1, 2026 (also on a published schedule through 2040), and a Stormwater Impact Fee of $8,542.64 per acre for FY2026-27 (rising to $8,775.90 on July 1, 2027). None of these are water, sewer or power charges, so they are outside the scope of this page.

Paying Provo fees: timing and process

The documents we read do not state exactly when each Provo fee is collected – at building permit issuance, at the water or power account application, or at meter set – so confirm the sequence with Public Works and Provo Power before you set a closing date. Opening a new account carries its own charges, separate from the connection and impact fees above: a $100 residential deposit and a $20 connect/processing fee for each utility, per the Consolidated Fee Schedule‘s Customer Service Fees sections for Culinary Water and Energy. Provo Power also lists a $75 after-hours or same-day connect fee on the same schedule.

Upcoming changes in Provo

• Provo’s water impact fee is already scheduled to rise on July 1, 2027, to $7,644.59 (Standard Lot) and $4,959.12 (Small Lot), and the published table continues in small annual steps through 2033.
• The Sewer Impact Fee ($4,450.26, unchanged since July 1, 2022) and the Power Impact Fee ($1,750.00 at 200 A, unchanged since July 1, 2019) have no published future-year table like the water and stormwater fees do; a new impact fee study could change either without the years of advance notice the water schedule already gives.
• Provo’s code is now published through a third-party recompilation site (provo.municipal.codes) rather than a standalone city PDF, and the water and power connection-fee rows there carry no printed effective date. Confirm current pricing with Public Works or Provo Power before you pay.

Provo connection fee questions

Where to go next from Provo

Lehi tap and impact fees · St. George tap fees · Salt Lake City tap fees · Saratoga Springs impact fees · tap fees by city · tap fee vs impact fee · sewer tap fee · cost to run power to a property · utility connection cost calculator

Provo fee sources

• Provo City Consolidated Fee Schedule – Impact Fees (Water, Sewer, Power, Park, Road, Public Safety, Stormwater), Provo City Code, current through Ordinance 2026-17 (passed June 9, 2026). Checked Sep 25, 2026.
• Provo City Consolidated Fee Schedule (main directory, including Culinary Water connection fees and Customer Service Fees), Provo City Code. Checked Sep 25, 2026.
• Provo City Consolidated Fee Schedule – Energy (Provo Power service connection fees), Provo City Code. Checked Sep 25, 2026.
• Public Works Utility Rates, City of Provo. Checked Sep 25, 2026.
• Power Rates, Provo Power, City of Provo. Checked Sep 25, 2026.