Budget - Clean Water Services

How Clean Water Services Sets Rates for Your Community

Each year, Clean Water Services (CWS) develops an annual budget and sets rates to support essential wastewater and stormwater services across Washington County. These decisions help ensure that our communities have the infrastructure and services we need to protect public health, reduce flooding, and keep our waterways clean. Any changes to rates for the upcoming fiscal year would take effect on July 1.

Clean Water Service Manhole Installation.

Clarified Vision: Planning and Building for Changing Communities and Climate

The pipes, pump stations, stormwater systems, and treatment facilities that protect the health of all of us who live and work in Washington County are able to serve our growing communities because of decades of planning. The systems that will meet our needs 20 years from now will arrive thanks to planning being done today.

Clean Water Services Water Resource Recovery Facility in Rock Creek, Oregon. Shown at dusk with bright lights illuminating a large clarifier on site.

Clean Water Services Board Adopts Fiscal Year 2025-26 Budget

The Clean Water Services (CWS) Board of Directors voted unanimously on June 17 to adopt the proposed Fiscal Year 2025-26 budget and rates and charges, including a 3% rate increase.

Clarifiers help clean used water at a water resource recovery facility

Clean Water Services Budget Committee Moves Proposed Fiscal Year 2025-26 Budget Forward with Requests for Further Review

CWS Board of Directors will next hold a public hearing and consider adoption on June 17 as part of a multi-phase budget process.

A river within the Tualatin river watershed with lush vegetation shading the water and the edges. Community members paddle on the river on a sunny day.

Clean Water Services Budget Committee to Review Proposed Budget at Two Public Meetings

Proposed FY 2025-26 investments tackle aging infrastructure and new regulations while ensuring customer rates remain predictable

An aerial view of kayakers on the tree-lined Tualatin River.

Practical, Proactive, People-Centered: Our Blessedly Boring Budget

Drama and excitement can be fun, but not when it comes to budget and rates planning. You want to know the folks tasked with tackling our region’s long-term water challenges are being as clear-eyed and careful with your hard-earned rate dollars as they are when protecting public health and the environment.

An Aerial view of Butternut Creek, a tributary to the Tualatin River, with heavy vegetation along the banks of the creek and houses backing up to the water.

From Unthinkable to Almost Drinkable

Do you wonder what happens to that water after you send it down the drain? Eventually, Washington County’s water ends up back in the Tualatin River, but it goes through quite a process to get there.