Spring Hill Water Tap & System Development Fees (2026)

The City of Spring Hill runs its own water and sewer utility, Spring Hill Water, and its connection charges are set in Title 18 of the city code. For a new single-family home with a 5/8-inch meter, the one-time charges from July 1, 2026 total $7,850.65: a $2,230 water system development charge, a $1,300 water tapping fee, a $185.65 meter fee, a $3,035 sewer system development charge and a $1,100 sewer connection fee for the 4-inch tap (Code 18-108 and 18-109). The same schedule applies on the Maury County and Williamson County sides of the city. The caveat that outweighs the fee amounts: Spring Hill has been under a state-ordered sewer moratorium since August 2025, and a lot without a sewer allocation cannot get a building permit, whatever it is willing to pay.

Official Spring Hill fees in one table

Every amount below comes from the Spring Hill Code of Ordinances (American Legal Publishing, 2025 S-6 supplement), except the $50 account fee, which is in Spring Hill Water’s residential service packet. The system development charges were raised in three steps by Ordinances 24-09 (water) and 24-10 (sewer), passed June 3, 2024; the table shows the third step, effective July 1, 2026. Both charges scale with water meter size: a 3/4-inch meter pays 1.2 times the 5/8-inch charge and a 1-inch meter pays 1.6 times. The tapping and meter fees date from Resolution 19-78 and did not change in 2024. Rows marked as other published fees (larger meters, the H.B. & T.S. territorial charge, the irrigation backflow permit, the developer’s sewer capacity analysis) apply only in specific situations.

What a new Spring Hill house pays: worked example

Assumptions: a detached house inside city limits, served by city water and sewer, with a 4-inch sewer tap and one domestic meter. The meter size is the variable that moves the total, because both system development charges multiply with it. The code formula is:

Total = water system development charge + tapping fee + meter fee + sewer system development charge + sewer connection fee (+ $750 if the lot is in the H.B. & T.S. district)

One-time official charges for one single-family home in Spring Hill from July 1, 2026, by meter size. Source: Spring Hill Code 18-108 to 18-110. Private line construction not included.

The arithmetic for the standard case: $2,230 + $1,300 + $185.65 = $3,715.65 for water, and $3,035 + $1,100 = $4,135 for sewer, for $7,850.65 in all. A permit paid under the July 1, 2025 step would have used $2,020 and $2,750 for the two system development charges, or $7,355.65 in total, so the 2026 step added $495. The territorial assessment applies only when more than half of the lot lies inside the boundaries of the H.B. & T.S. Utility District of Williamson County. The city collects it with the water tap fee and passes it to the district. Five developments approved by the planning commission by February 28, 1996 are exempt, including Crowne Pointe and Spring Hill Estates. A separate irrigation meter is charged the same tap, meter and system development charges again plus a $25 backflow permit, which comes to $3,740.65 on a 5/8-inch meter.

Spring Hill vs. Nashville and Murfreesboro

Spring Hill’s standard total is higher than the base case in either nearby city we track. In Nashville, Metro Water Services charges $4,535 for a home assessed one 350-gallon-per-day capacity unit and $8,210 at two units (see our Nashville tap fee page). In Murfreesboro, a typical subdivision lot served by the city’s water department pays $4,640 (see Murfreesboro tap fees). Spring Hill’s $7,850.65 is $3,315.65 more than Nashville’s one-unit case and $3,210.65 more than the Murfreesboro stub lot. It falls $359.35 below Nashville’s two-unit case. Unlike Nashville (priced per unit of flow) and Murfreesboro (flat per-house fees), Spring Hill prices both water and sewer capacity by meter size. Spring Hill’s charges are also indexed: from July 1, 2027 they rise every year by 3% or the change in the Consumer Price Index, whichever is greater.

Costs outside the Spring Hill fee schedule

The code fees pay for the city’s tap, meter and system capacity. The work on your lot is separate:

• Water service line from the meter to the house: $30 to $150 per foot, about $50 typical, installed including the trench (national estimate).
• Sewer lateral to the house: $50 to $250 per foot, about $100 typical, installed including the trench (national estimate).
• Street cut or bore if the main is across the road: $1,000 to $10,000 per crossing, about $4,000 typical (national estimate).
• Plumbing and building permits from Spring Hill Development Services: about $300 typical for the plumbing permit (national estimate).
• County Adequate Facilities Tax. The city’s residential building permit application requires proof that the Maury or Williamson County adequate facilities tax has been paid. That county tax is not a utility fee, and we have not researched its amounts here.

A 60-foot water line at $50 a foot and a 60-foot lateral at $100 a foot add about $9,000 to the city fees. These figures come from our national benchmark set. See water service line cost and sewer lateral cost, and model your own lot here:

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How and when Spring Hill fees are paid

• Sewer fees come first. Code 18-109 says sewer connection charges are collected before the city issues a permit to connect. Taps are requested on the city’s Sewer/Water Tap Application through Development Services.
• No site work or permit without sewer approval. Code 18-147 bars clearing or construction on a lot that needs a new sewer connection until the City Engineer has approved the connection in writing and the fees are paid, and it restricts building permits for lots that need a new connection. Final plats also need written sewer approval for every lot.
• Capacity can’t be bought ahead. Since Ordinance 21-14 (2021), nobody can reserve present or future sewer capacity by paying an availability fee (Code 18-147 to 18-151). Existing reservations cannot be transferred to other land, though the city may refund them.
• Opening the account. Spring Hill Water charges a $50 non-refundable new customer connection fee to open a water account (residential service packet, July 2024). From July 1, 2026 the inside-city water base charge is $20.71 a month and the sewer base charge is $25.51 (rate schedule).

What could change in Spring Hill

The sewer moratorium matters more than any fee change. On August 5, 2025 the city accepted Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Consent Order WPC2025-0093 (Resolution 25-183) after self-reporting 29 effluent violations at its treatment plant. The order puts a moratorium on new sewer connections for projects without vested sewer rights, and the city says it stays in place until the plant meets the order’s performance standards for 12 consecutive months (city notice). The board suspended new development applications with Resolution 25-238 on October 6, 2025, and extended the suspension with Resolution 25-259 on November 3 and Resolution 25-268. Ordinance 25-29, passed January 5, 2026, then formally declared a sewer moratorium and handed out all remaining treatment capacity in a single one-time allocation: 207,403 gallons per day to listed projects with development agreements and 62,500 to listed permit-ready vacant lots. It also covered building permits already issued (365,000 gallons per day), a hospital and city buildings (65,000), and a 100,000-gallon reserve the board can release only for nonresidential tenant improvements in existing buildings. Any other project needing sewer cannot be accepted or approved until new capacity comes online or a later ordinance allocates more. The exceptions are a site whose flow stays at or below its existing or previous flow, and a project with an approved decentralized treatment system. Every allocated building or tenant space must also install a sewer flow meter before it gets a certificate of occupancy.

The moratorium was still in force in September 2026. The board has only been granting small allocations from the reserve to individual businesses (Ordinance 26-01, March 2026, 500 gallons per day for a medical office; another was introduced on September 21, 2026), and the city is pursuing a wastewater interconnect with Columbia to address its capacity limits.

On fees: the system development charges step up each July 1 from 2027 by at least 3%. One city page is out of date. The Irrigation Meters page still quotes a $1,491 development fee and a $3,001.65 total, while the code charges $2,230 from July 1, 2026. We use the code figure.

Common questions about Spring Hill fees

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Spring Hill fee sources

• Spring Hill Code of Ordinances, Secs. 18-105 to 18-110 (water and sewer connection charges, territorial assessment), City of Spring Hill (via American Legal Publishing, 2025 S-6). Checked Sep 25, 2026.
• Spring Hill Code of Ordinances, Secs. 18-147 to 18-151 (sewer capacity and reservations), City of Spring Hill. Checked Sep 25, 2026.
• Ordinance 25-29, sewer moratorium and capacity allocation (also in the January 5, 2026 meeting packet) and Ordinance 26-01, City of Spring Hill. Checked Sep 25, 2026.
• Resolution 25-183 (TDEC Consent Order WPC2025-0093), “TDEC Imposes Sewer Moratorium on City of Spring Hill” (August 2025) and September 21, 2026 board agenda, City of Spring Hill. Checked Sep 25, 2026.
• Resolution 25-238, Resolution 25-259 and Resolution 25-268, City of Spring Hill. Checked Sep 25, 2026.
• Water Service Application, Residential Packet (July 2024), Water and Sewer Rate Schedule and Irrigation Meters, Spring Hill Water. Checked Sep 25, 2026.
• Sewer/Water Tap Application and Residential Building Permit Application, Spring Hill Development Services. Checked Sep 25, 2026.
• National cost estimates: Utility Cost Guide benchmark methodology.