Water Usage Rates and Payment Options
Please be advised we are transitioning to new billing software August 1st, 2026. Your bill will look different along with a new account number. If you have automatic payments through your bank, please update with the new account number when you receive your August bill. We would like to ask you for updated phone and email addresses. If you would like to sign up for email statements and emergency notifications through the software.
Increasing Block Rate:
| 0-400 per cf | $0.094725 |
| 401-1000 per cf | $0.106798 |
| 1001-1500 per cf | $0.116085 |
| 1501-2500 per cf | $0.125372 |
| 2501-5000 per cf | $0.139302 |
| 5001-10,000 per cf | $0.157876 |
| 10,001-up per cf | $0.176449 |
| 5/8" & 3/4" Meter | $3.62 Monthly |
| 1" Meter | $5.53 Monthly |
| 1-1/2" Meter | $6.88 Monthly |
| 2" Meter | $11.96 Monthly |
| 3" Meter | $14.77 Monthly |
Example: A 5/8-meter minimum bill with usage from 0 up to 400 cubic feet would be $41.51.
PAYMENT OPTIONS
Checks or money orders should be made payable to "Palmer Water District #1."
Payments may be dropped through the office's mail slot after hours.
When paying by YOUR bank's "on-line" service, please be aware that Palmer Water Department is sent a paper check. It may take up to two weeks until the payment is received in our office.
Please be aware that as of July 1, 2014, CASH IS NO LONGER ACCEPTED.
If you wish to pay your bill online, please click on the following link: UNIPAY
Under the "Vendor/Municipalities" heading, click on the down arrow and scroll down to "Palmer Fire & Water District #1"
Please verify service address and account number is correct. If your account has a decimal it needs to be added.
Click "submit" in order to begin the payment process.
If you wish to pay for Three Rivers, please use their portal link for "Three Rivers Fire District"
unipaygold.unibank.com/transactioninfo.aspx
(The Water Departments for Thorndike and Bondsville do not use UniPay)