If you’re buying new construction in Reno, or building it, connection fees for the city’s sewer system aren’t going up—at least not beyond routine cost-of-living increases. Those fees can flow into the price of a new home, so the finding matters beyond just the development industry.
In a memo sent to the mayor and City Council by Regional Infrastructure Administrator John Flansberg and Senior Management Analyst Kayla Garcia, the team recommends that current sewer connection fees are “sufficient for the three sewer service areas” and that “no additional increases outside of annual Consumer Price Index (CPI) adjustments for inflation are recommended at this time.”
Capacity built for decades of growth
The numbers behind that recommendation are notable. The Truckee Meadows Water Reclamation Facility has 6.1 million gallons per day of remaining capacity—enough to support roughly 36,970 more single-family homes.
At the city’s historical pace of about 1,200 new connections per year, that’s approximately 30 years of runway…