Water & sewer across Ontario

What are the water and sewer rules and rates?

135 of 444 municipalities in Ontario have an adopted bylaw on water & sewer on file. Each row links the municipality's answer page and, where transcribed, the full text of the document.

MunicipalityAdopted documentKey factsVerified
Amherstburg
Town
By-law 2014-08 - Regulate Supply of Water
+1 more
billing basis: metered 2026-08-28
Arnprior
Town
Sewer-Use By-Law No. 6227-13
adopted 2013-06-24
2026-08-28
Ashfield–Colborne–Wawanosh
Township
By-law 23-2024 - Storm Sewer Use 2026-08-28
Asphodel–Norwood
Township
By-law 2026-03 - Norwood Water System service charges
+2 more
adopted 2026-01-13
connection mandatory: True · billing basis: fixed and metered · connection mandatory: True 2026-08-28
Atikokan
Town
The Corporation of the Town of Atikokan By-Law No. 01-24 Being a By-Law to Establish Water Rates, and Sewage Service Rates
adopted 2024-01-08
2026-08-28
Aylmer
Town
Comprehensive Water By-law No. 09-09 billing basis: metered 2026-08-28
Barrie
City
Sewer Use By-law No. 2021-002
+2 more
adopted 2021-01-11
billing basis: metered 2026-08-28
Bradford West Gwillimbury
Town
Sewer Use By-law 2013-68
adopted 2013-06-18
2026-08-28
Brampton
City
Discharge of Sewage By-law 90-75
adopted 1975-05-26
2026-08-28
Brant
City
Sanitary Sewer Use By-law No. 5-10
+2 more
adopted 2010-01-05
2026-08-28
Brock
Township
Storm Sewer Use By-law 3388-2025 2026-08-28
Brockville
City
Sewer Connection By-law 069-2023
+4 more
billing basis: metered 2026-08-28
Burk's Falls
Village
By-Law No. 03-2022 Regulation of Water Supply
adopted 2022-02-22
connection mandatory: True · billing basis: metered 2026-08-28
Burlington
City
Storm Sewer Discharge By-law 059-2022
adopted 2022-07-12
2026-08-28
Cambridge
City
By-law No. 146-03 - Supply of Water By-Law 2026-08-28
Casselman
Village
Wastewater Development Charge By-law 2023
adopted 2023-06-27
2026-08-28
Central Huron
Municipality
Water and Sewer Fees By-law 55-2025
adopted 2025-07-21
connection mandatory: True · billing basis: Base rates and consumption charges 2026-08-28
Centre Wellington
Township
Sewer Use By-law 2022-66
adopted 2022-08-22
2026-08-28
Chapleau
Township
2025 Waterworks Rate By-law 2025-09 2026-08-28
Chapple
Township
Water Usage By-law 1818
adopted 2023-07-11
billing basis: metered 2026-08-28
Chatham-Kent
Municipality
Sewer Use By-law 4-2000 2026-08-28
Chisholm
Township
By-law 2010-34 - Septic Pump-out along Wasi Lake 2026-08-28
Clarence-Rockland
City
User Fees By-law 2025-105 - Schedule P (Water)
+1 more
2026-08-28
Cornwall
City
Water Meter By-law No. 2024-066 2026-08-28
Deseronto
Town
By-Law 33-24 - Water and Sewer Rates
adopted 2024-08-14
2026-08-28
Dryden
City
By-law to Amend Chapter 259 re: Increase Water and Sewer Rates (2026 rates) No. 2025-75
+1 more
adopted 2025-12-15
2026-08-28
East Garafraxa
Township
By-law 34-2006 - Municipal Water Systems 2026-08-28
East Gwillimbury
Town
By-Law 2015-104 - Regulation of Potable Water
adopted 2015-10-20
billing basis: metered 2026-08-28
Elliot Lake
City
2025 Water Rates By-Law 25-51 2026-08-28
Emo
Township
Water Usage By-law 2026-08-28
Englehart
Town
By-Law 2022-13 — Water and Sewer Rates for 2022 2026-08-28
Enniskillen
Township
Public Utilities — Sewer / Water Services billing basis: metered 2026-08-28
Essa
Township
By-law 2015-18 - Regulation of Discharge of Sewage, Storm Water and Land Drainage into Municipal Infrastructure
adopted 2015-03-04
2026-08-28
Gananoque
Town
By-law No. 2008-020 - Regulate Water Works connection mandatory: True · billing basis: metered 2026-08-28
Goderich
Town
Water Works Utility By-Law (By-Law No. 87 of 2008 amending 38 of 2001) billing basis: flat and metered 2026-08-28
Grand Valley
Town
By-law 2022-20 - Use of Drinking Water Regulations
adopted 2022-03-08
2026-08-28
Greater Napanee
Town
Water and Sewage Service Charges By-law 2026-08-28
Grey Highlands
Municipality
Inland Lakes and Water Quality By-law 2026-08-28
Guelph
City
Outside Water Use By-law (2014)-19714
+5 more
connection mandatory: True · connection mandatory: True · billing basis: metered 2026-08-28
Haldimand
City
Sewer Use By-law No. 1443-14
+2 more
adopted 2014-05-20
2026-08-28
Hamilton
City
Sanitary Surcharge and Wastewater Abatement By-law No. 03-272
+3 more
2026-08-28
Hanover
Town
Water Wastewater Services Rules Regulations By-law 2839-14 2026-08-28
Havelock-Belmont-Methuen
Township
Regulate Discharge to Waste Water System 2007-12
+1 more
2026-08-28
Hawkesbury
Town
Water Meters By-law N°61-2008
+1 more
billing basis: metered 2026-08-28
Hearst
Town
Water and Sewer Budgets and Rates By-Law 10-2025 2026-08-28
Highlands East
Municipality
Water Usage By-Law 2021-46 2026-08-28
Hornepayne
Township
Water and Sewer Rates By-law No. 2117 connection mandatory: True · billing basis: flat 2026-08-28
Huron-Kinloss
Township
Huron-Kinloss Sewer Use By-law 2002-108 2026-08-28
Ignace
Township
By-law 39.2022 — Water and Wastewater Rates or Charges 2026-08-28
Innisfil
Town
Backflow Prevention By-law 080-22
adopted 2022-06-22
2026-08-28
Johnson
Township
Water and Sewer Fee Collection By-law (2021)
adopted 2021-04-21
2026-08-28
Kawartha Lakes
City
By-Law to Establish the Management and Use of the Sewer Works 2016-006
+1 more
adopted 2016-01-12
2026-08-28
Kenora
City
Water and Sewer By-law Amendment No. 117-2023 (amending By-law 70-2018 - leak responsibility)
+1 more
adopted 2023-09-20
2026-08-28
Kingston
City
A By-law to Impose Water & Wastewater Rates for Utilities Kingston (No. 2011-24)
+1 more
adopted 2011-02-15
2026-08-28
Kitchener
City
Utility rates - water, sanitary sewer and stormwater (Kitchener Utilities) 2026-08-28
Latchford
Town
By-Law No. 2025-014 - Water and Sewage Service Rates
adopted 2025-05-13
billing basis: flat 2026-08-28
Laurentian Hills
Town
By-Law No. 35-04 - Prohibit Connections to the Domestic Water Supply Lines 2026-08-28
Laurentian Valley
Township
By-law 2023-04-025 - Water Restrictions 2026-08-28
London
City
Wastewater & Stormwater By-law - WM-28
+2 more
billing basis: metered · billing basis: metered 2026-08-28
Loyalist
Township
Water Works By-law 2024-12
adopted 2024-02-13
connection mandatory: True · billing basis: metered 2026-08-28
Manitouwadge
Township
Bylaw 2023-36 - Water Sewer Levy Relief 2026-08-28
Markham
City
Sewer Use By-law 2023-150
+1 more
2026-08-28
Markstay-Warren
Municipality
Sewer User Rates By-law 2024-31 2026-08-28
Mattice-Val Côté
Township
Water Rates 2026-08-28
Middlesex Centre
Municipality
Water By-Law: Regulation of Water Supply (2018-028)
adopted 2018-03-28
2026-08-28
Milton
Town
Stormwater Infrastructure By-law 095-2022
adopted 2022-09-12
2026-08-28
Minto
Town
Water Supply and Water and Sewer Billing By-law connection mandatory: True · billing basis: metered 2026-08-28
Mississauga
City
Storm Sewer Use By-law No. 0046-2022
adopted 2022-03-23
2026-08-28
Mono
Town
Wastewater System Operation and Rates Bylaw 2014-36
+2 more
adopted 2014-09-09
billing basis: flat · billing basis: metered · connection mandatory: True 2026-08-28
Moosonee
Town
Water Meters By-law #12-12 connection mandatory: True · billing basis: metered 2026-08-28
New Tecumseth
Town
Municipal Sewer Use By-law 2018-043
+1 more
adopted 2018-04-09
billing basis: metered 2026-08-28
Niagara Falls
City
Water Rates By-law No. 2024-033 (consolidated, amended by 2017-41)
adopted 2024-03-19
2026-08-28
Norfolk
City
Sanitary Sewer Use By-law 2022-10
+2 more
connection mandatory: True · billing basis: metered 2026-08-28
North Bay
City
Water & Wastewater Rates By-Law 2020-81 2026-08-28
North Middlesex
Municipality
By-Law 46 of 2019 - Regulation of Water Supply
adopted 2019-11-06
2026-08-28
North Perth
Municipality
By-law 59-2022 - Regulation of Wastewater and Stormwater Services to Municipal Sewers connection mandatory: True 2026-08-29
North Stormont
Township
Water and Sewer Rate By-law 23-2023 2026-08-29
Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands
Municipality
By-law 2012-12: Policy for Water and Wastewater Rates and Charges
+1 more
2026-08-29
Orillia
City
Municipal Code Chapter 459 — User Fees - Environment and Infrastructure Services - Water and Wastewater 2026-08-29
Oro-Medonte
Township
Water Regulations 2026-08-29
Oshawa
City
Storm Sewer Connection By-law 9-90
+1 more
adopted 1990-02-05
2026-08-29
Owen Sound
City
Sewer Use and Land Drainage By-law No. 2006-034
+2 more
adopted 2006-03-20
2026-08-29
Oxford County
Regional municipality
By-law No. 6270-2020 Modernized Sewer Use By-law 2026-08-29
Pembroke
City
Water Restriction By-law 2012-61
+1 more
billing basis: flat, metered 2026-08-29
Petawawa
Town
Watering By-law 293/04
adopted 2004-06-21
2026-08-29
Peterborough
City
By-law No. 15-075 (Sewage and Land Drainage Discharge)
adopted 2015-04-27
2026-08-29
Petrolia
Town
By-law 22-2025 - Installation and Maintenance of Sanitary and Storm Sewers connection mandatory: True 2026-08-29
Point Edward
Village
By-law 17 of 2024 - Authorize the Collection of Waterworks Rates 2026-08-29
Port Colborne
City
Sewer Use By-law 5228/134/08
+1 more
connection mandatory: True 2026-08-29
Prince Edward
City
By-Law 233-2021 to Enact Use Rates, Rules and Regulations for the Supply of Water and Sanitary Sewage Service in the County of Prince Edward (2022-2026)
+2 more
adopted 2021-12-14
2026-08-29
Quinte West
City
Sewer Use By-law 25-095 connection mandatory: True 2026-08-29
Red Lake
Municipality
Water and Sewer Works By-Law Nos. 949-07 and 1557-11 connection mandatory: True · billing basis: metered 2026-08-29
Red Rock
Township
Water Meters 2026-08-29
Regional Municipality of Durham
Regional municipality
Sewer Use By-law No. 055-2013
+1 more
adopted 2013-10-30
2026-08-29
Regional Municipality of Halton
Regional municipality
Drinking Water System By-law 71-19
+1 more
billing basis: metered 2026-08-29
Regional Municipality of Niagara
Regional municipality
Sewer Use By-law No. 2024-51 2026-08-29
Regional Municipality of Peel
Regional municipality
Drinking Water By-law Number 6-2017
+1 more
billing basis: metered · billing basis: metered; flat rate for non-metered customers 2026-08-29
Regional Municipality of Waterloo
Regional municipality
Sewer Use By-law Number 21-036
+1 more
billing basis: metered 2026-08-29
Sables-Spanish Rivers
Township
Water Restriction Bylaw 2003-10 2026-08-29
Sarnia
City
By-Law to Regulate the Provision of Water No. 58 of 1991 (as amended)
+3 more
2026-08-29
Sault Ste. Marie
City
Sewer Use By-law No. 2009-50 2026-08-29
Sioux Lookout
Municipality
By-law 29-24 To Establish the Water and Wastewater Service Rates 2026-08-29
Smiths Falls
Town
By-law 10667-2026 - Water & Wastewater Rates
adopted 2026-02-02
billing basis: metered 2026-08-29
South Bruce
Municipality
Water Restrictions By-Law 2026-08-29
South Bruce Peninsula
Town
Water and Sewer Rates By-Law 65-2024 2026-08-29
South Dundas
Municipality
By-law 2021-112 Boil Water Advisory 2026-08-29
South Glengarry
Township
By-law 49-16 - Water and Sewer Service Connection By-law billing basis: metered 2026-08-29
South Stormont
Township
By-law 2023-085 - Water Regulation By-law
adopted 2023-10-11
2026-08-29
Southgate
Township
Municipal Waterworks Supply System By-law 12-2011
+2 more
connection mandatory: False · billing basis: metered · connection mandatory: True 2026-08-29
Southwest Middlesex
Municipality
Glencoe Sewer Use By-law
adopted 2012-05-23
2026-08-29
St. Catharines
City
Water Rates By-law No. 2019-55
+3 more
2026-08-29
St. Marys
Town
Sewer Requirement By-law 78-2003
+1 more
connection mandatory: True · connection mandatory: True · billing basis: metered 2026-08-29
St. Thomas
City
By-Law 44-2000 - Regulation of Water Supply (Office Consolidation)
+3 more
billing basis: metered 2026-08-29
St.-Charles
Municipality
Sewage Rates for 2025 By-Law 2025-29 billing basis: flat 2026-08-29
Strathroy-Caradoc
Municipality
Regulation of Water Supply By-law No. 14-20
adopted 2020-05-19
connection mandatory: True · billing basis: metered 2026-08-29
Sundridge
Village
Sanitary Sewer User Fees (2024-050) 2026-08-29
Tay
Township
Sanitary Sewer Use
+1 more
connection mandatory: True · connection mandatory: True 2026-08-29
Temiskaming Shores
City
Water and Sewer Rates By-law No. 2026-035
adopted 2026-04-21
2026-08-29
Thames Centre
Municipality
Water and Wastewater Capital Charges By-law No. 98-2022
adopted 2022-12-19
2026-08-29
The Blue Mountains
Town
By-law 2024-15 (amending By-law 2023-37, Regulation of Water Supply) 2026-08-29
Thunder Bay
City
Sewer Use By-law, BL 27/2019
adopted 2019-06-24
2026-08-29
Timmins
City
Amend Water By-Law 1974-253 re: 2023 Water and Sewer Rates (By-law No. 2022-8775)
adopted 2022-12-15
2026-08-29
Toronto
City
Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 681, Sewers
+1 more
connection mandatory: True · connection mandatory: True · billing basis: metered 2026-08-29
Trent Lakes
Municipality
Watering Restrictions By-law B2024-052 2026-08-29
Tyendinaga
Township
Building By-law 06-08 - Sewage System Permits 2026-08-29
Vaughan
City
Sewer Use By-law
+3 more
2026-08-29
Waterloo
City
Water Use Bylaw No. 2013-115
+1 more
adopted 2013-11-18
2026-08-29
Welland
City
By-law to Regulate Management of a System of Sewer Works and Drainage Works, No. 2017-18
+1 more
adopted 2017-03-07
2026-08-29
Wellington North
Township
Sewer System: Connection By-law 094-16
+2 more
connection mandatory: True · billing basis: flat · billing basis: metered 2026-08-29
West Elgin
Municipality
By-law 2024-42 - Sanitary Sewer Connection connection mandatory: True 2026-08-29
West Nipissing
Municipality
By-law 2011-50 Watering of Lawns and Gardens 2026-08-29
Whitby
Town
Storm Sewer By-law 2026-08-29
White River
Township
Change to Water Service
+1 more
2026-08-29
Windsor
City
Sewer Connection Servicing By-law 4921
+3 more
2026-08-29
Zorra
Township
County of Oxford By-law 4193-2002: Water Use Restrictions 2026-08-29

Nothing on file for water & sewer

Absence here is explicit, not a gap: each municipality below was checked, and its status says why there is no document.

Checked, nothing adopted (2) — Newbury (2026-08-28), Renfrew (2026-08-29).

Other bylaws on file, none on this topic (296) — Addington Highlands, Adelaide Metcalfe, Adjala-Tosorontio, Admaston/Bromley, Ajax, Alberton, Alfred and Plantagenet, Algonquin Highlands, Alnwick/Haldimand, Amaranth, Armour, Armstrong, Arran–Elderslie, Assiginack, Athens, Augusta, Aurora, Baldwin, Bancroft, Bayham, Beckwith, Belleville, Billings, Black River-Matheson, Blandford-Blenheim, Blind River, Bluewater, Bonfield, Bonnechere Valley, Bracebridge, Brantford, Brighton, Brockton, Brooke-Alvinston, Bruce County, Bruce Mines, Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan, Burpee and Mills, Caledon, Callander, Calvin, Carleton Place, Carling, Carlow/Mayo, Casey, Cavan Monaghan, Central Elgin, Central Frontenac, Central Manitoulin, Centre Hastings, Champlain, Charlton and Dack, Chatsworth, Clarington, Clearview, Cobalt, Cobourg, Cochrane, Cockburn Island, Collingwood, Conmee, Cramahe, Dawn-Euphemia, Dawson, Deep River, District Municipality of Muskoka, Dorion, Douro-Dummer, Drummond/North Elmsley, Dubreuilville, Dufferin County, Dutton/Dunwich, Dysart et al, Ear Falls, East Ferris, East Hawkesbury, East Zorra-Tavistock, Edwardsburgh/Cardinal, Elgin County, Elizabethtown-Kitley, Erin, Espanola, Essex, Essex County, Evanturel, Faraday, Fort Erie, Fort Frances, French River, Front of Yonge, Frontenac County, Frontenac Islands, Georgian Bay, Georgian Bluffs, Georgina, Gillies, Gordon/Barrie Island, Gore Bay, Gravenhurst, Greater Madawaska, Greater Sudbury, Greenstone, Grey County, Grimsby, Guelph/Eramosa, Haliburton County, Halton Hills, Hamilton, Harley, Harris, Hastings County, Hastings Highlands, Head, Clara and Maria, Hilliard, Hilton, Hilton Beach, Horton, Howick, Hudson, Huntsville, Huron County, Huron East, Huron Shores, Ingersoll, Iroquois Falls, James, Jocelyn, Joly, Kapuskasing, Kearney, Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards, Killarney, Kincardine, King, Kingsville, Kirkland Lake, La Vallee, LaSalle, Laird, Lake of Bays, Lake of the Woods, Lakeshore, Lambton County, Lambton Shores, Lanark County, Lanark Highlands, Larder Lake, Leamington, Leeds and the Thousand Islands, Lennox and Addington County, Limerick, Lincoln, Lucan Biddulph, Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional, Machar, Machin, Madawaska Valley, Madoc, Magnetawan, Malahide, Mapleton, Marathon, Marmora and Lake, Matachewan, Mattawa, Mattawan, McDougall, McGarry, McKellar, McMurrich/Monteith, McNab/Braeside, Meaford, Melancthon, Merrickville–Wolford, Middlesex County, Midland, Minden Hills, Mississippi Mills, Montague, Morris-Turnberry, Mulmur, Muskoka Lakes, Nairn and Hyman, Neebing, Newmarket, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Nipigon, Nipissing, North Algona Wilberforce, North Dumfries, North Dundas, North Frontenac, North Glengarry, North Grenville, North Huron, North Kawartha, Northern Bruce Peninsula, Northumberland County, Norwich, Oakville, Oil Springs, Oliver Paipoonge, Orangeville, Otonabee–South Monaghan, Ottawa, Papineau-Cameron, Parry Sound, Pelee, Pelham, Penetanguishene, Perry, Perth, Perth County, Perth East, Perth South, Peterborough County, Pickering, Pickle Lake, Plummer Additional, Plympton–Wyoming, Port Hope, Powassan, Prescott, Prescott and Russell, Prince, Puslinch, Rainy River, Ramara, Regional Municipality of York, Renfrew County, Richmond Hill, Rideau Lakes, Russell, Ryerson, Saugeen Shores, Schreiber, Scugog, Seguin, Selwyn, Severn, Shelburne, Shuniah, Simcoe County, Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls, Smooth Rock Falls, South Algonquin, South Frontenac, South Huron, South River, South-West Oxford, Southwold, Spanish, Springwater, St. Clair, St. Joseph, Stirling-Rawdon, Stone Mills, Stratford, Strong, Tarbutt, Tay Valley, Tecumseh, Tehkummah, Temagami, Terrace Bay, The Archipelago, The Nation, The North Shore, Thessalon, Thorold, Tillsonburg, Tiny, Trent Hills, Tudor and Cashel, Tweed, United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Uxbridge, Val Rita-Harty, Wainfleet, Warwick, Wasaga Beach, Wawa, Wellesley, Wellington County, West Grey, West Lincoln, West Perth, Westport, Whitchurch-Stouffville, Whitestone, Whitewater, Wilmot, Wollaston, Woodstock, Woolwich.

No bylaws published online (8, verified negatives) — Brethour, Chamberlain, Fauquier-Strickland, Gauthier, Kerns, Moonbeam, O'Connor, Thornloe.

Unconfirmed (3, leads but nothing verified) — Coleman, Morley, Opasatika.

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