Water Bill Increases

An HCMUD 18 water bill consists of 2 sections: Water and Wastewater. The North Harris County water billing is always shown as a separate listing on the MUD 18 water bill as that’s where the District gets its water allowing you to see that price.

This increase does not affect the MUD Tax Rate which as of 2025 is set at $0.3075 per $100 property valuation.

This increase does not affect the North Harris County Regional Water Authority rate as this portion of your bill is set by the North Harris County authority – MUD 18 has no control over this charge.

The MUD 18 Water Use billing change

The Board of Directors of MUD 18 adjusted the use rate billing table. Water use, broken into tiers, were set to encourage conservation long before the Eye on Water app. We’ve changed from 6 use tiers to 7 tiers to better address the change in water use.

Reason – Our expenses for operations have increased. Our last change to the water use rates was set in 2009 – 16 years ago. Even with this change, we are still lower in comparison than our neighbor MUDs.

New Residential Water Use Rates (in Thousand Gallons per month)

$15.00 minimum – First 5,000 gallons
$1.25 per 1,000 gallons – Next 5,000 gallons (5,001 – 10,000 gallons)
$1.25 per 1,000 gallons – Next 5,000 gallons (10,001 – 15,000 gallons)
$1.50 per 1,000 gallons – Next 5,000 gallons (15,001 – 20,000 gallons)
$1.75 per 1,000 gallons – Next 10,000 gallons (20,001 – 30,000 gallons)
$2.75 per 1,000 gallons – Next 10,000 gallons (30,001 – 40,000 gallons)
$3.75 per 1,000 gallons – Over 40,000 gallons

MUD18 water use rates are based on an ‘Equivalent Residential Connection’ set at thousand-gallons-per-month increments.

The MUD 18 Wastewater billing change

The Board adjusted the flat rate for sewer from $15 / month to $17 / Month

Reason – We believe we last changed the flat sewer rate over 20 years ago. Again, our comparison rates are still lower than our neighbor MUD’s. We share a wastewater treatment plant with 3 other districts and have seen major repairs to the 40+ year old plant increase significantly.

Current Exemptions in the District MUD Taxes

MUD 18 offers exemptions for ‘Over 65’ and also ‘Disabled’ residents. You can file for these exemptions with Eagle Water Management.

MUD 18 does not offer Homestead Exemptions – those are offered by Harris County.

 

2 New Videos

We’ve moved through another Houston summer and on to the fall and winter. This is a good time to get out and review the irrigation settings of your sprinkler system, to make run-time changes and check for operation across the zones. Heads and pipe leaks are evident and can be more easily repaired before cold weather moves in. Also, look for over-shoot of heads onto driveways and roads.

We present 2 public service videos: Smart Watering and Flushing. Smart watering addresses how to review yard system settings, and our new Flushing video explains why you may occasionally see ‘purposeful leaks’ in the District.

HCMUD 18 Sets 2024 New Tax Rate

The Board of Directors of Harris County Municipal Utility District No.18 has lowered the District’s tax rate for the 2024 tax year.

The  2024 tax rate is now set at $0.31000 per $100 of assessed value.

This is a decrease of -3.66% from last year’s rate of $0.32177 per $100 of assessed value.

Please Note:   Although using this new, lowered rate, if the average residence homestead  assessed value increases from $304,916 to $326,019, there would be a slight increase in the average tax amount from $981.13 to $1,010.66, representing a 3.01% increase, or in this example $29.53.

The Board of MUD18 currently holds no bond debt and strives to maintain quality infrastructure, customer service and low cost within our District.

We are mandated to purchase surface water from the North Harris County Regional Water Authority, which sets its own price for water.  MUD 18 incorporates the surface water price set by the Regional Authority when calculating your water bill..  Please refer to your monthly bill to see how the District’s and Regional Authority’s water rates combine to form your monthly bill. Our Sewer Rate stays the same.