For more than a century, EBMUD has supported the East Bay’s health, economy, and environment with high-quality water and award-winning wastewater treatment. The Fiscal Year 2026 (July 1, 2025) and Fiscal Year 2027 (July 1, 2026) Biennial Budget addresses the need to renew aging infrastructure, maintain water quality, protect the environment, and ensure financial sustainability.
Aging infrastructure remains one of EBMUD’s most pressing challenges. EBMUD’s 10-year Capital Improvement Program reflects significant planned investments for critical water and wastewater infrastructure. Water rates and Wastewater rates support EBMUD’s needs to upgrade treatment plants and pumping facilities, pipelines, and sewer interceptors.
These improvements will help EBMUD prepare for earthquakes, droughts and wildfires, and address new challenges brought on by a changing climate, such as intense storms, wildfires, new contaminants, varying water sources, stormwater infiltration, and nutrient loads in San Francisco Bay.
Financial stability underpins the budget framework, with a focus on balanced expenses, debt, and rates. Fulfilling our community’s needs requires financial strength. EBMUD navigates its long-term fiscal health by balancing expenses, debt financing, and Water rates and Wastewater rates in ways that maintain our effectiveness at a reasonable price.
EBMUD remains committed to its role as an essential public partner responsible for managing the critical infrastructure that allows our communities to thrive.
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