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Tapping Fees

Pennsylvania Act 57 provides municipal authorities the right to collect tapping fees for new customers and/or developments to generate revenue to recover costs of existing or planned facilities necessary to serve the new customers and/or developments.

Act 57 establishes the formulas and calculations used to determine the tapping fees that can be charged by a municipal authority.

Based on Act 57, the tapping fees components used are:

  1)

Connection Fee - The actual costs incurred by the Authority to install the service from the Authority’s main to the property line or curb line.

  2)

Customer Facility Fee - The cost of the water distribution system from the treatment plant to the user connection.

  3)

Distribution Fee - Recovers a portion of the cost of distribution facilities normally required to provide service, such as distribution mains, fire hydrants, valves and associated appurtenances.

  4)

Capacity Fee - Designed to recover from new customers a portion of the costs of existing and planned capacity-related facilities (i.e. source of supply, water treatment, transmission mains, storage tanks and pumping stations) that will provide them with service, and enable them to achieve the same standing as prior customers who have been paying for those facilities through their water rates.

  5)

Fire Capacity Fee - A special purpose fee to recover the cost for facilities that serve a special service or specific area, in this case private fire protection requirements. The fee is based on the need for additional storage capacity, booster pumping capacity and or special fire service water mains which are dedicated or exclusive to serving a certain customer of customer group.

Click to access a PDF file of the 2007 Schedule of Tapping Fees for Commercial, Industrial and Multi-Unit Residential customers. Single-family residential customers should contact the ESWA Engineering Department for assistance in determining applicable tapping fees. Email us or contact ESWA at 610-258-7181, ext 118, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.