For one sewer Equivalent Residential Unit and a 5/8- to 3/4-inch water meter, Medina County’s currently linked schedule produces limited modeled subtotals of $57.75 at the 1,000-gallon minimum, $89.25 at 4,000 gallons, and $131.25 at 8,000 gallons.
Those numbers combine four published components. They are not complete bills. The County billing page linked the schedule when we checked on August 1, 2026, but the document itself says it was updated January 1, 2025. That date needs to stay attached to every calculation.
The four inputs
The County’s billing page directs customers to sections II and III of its fee schedule. It says rate dollars support facilities, equipment, labor, materials, and debt service, and that rates cannot change without prior County Commissioner approval.
The linked fee and charge schedule lists:
- $32.75 per sewer ERU each month;
- $6.50 sewer debt fee per ERU each month;
- $10.50 per 1,000 gallons of water; and
- $8 monthly water debt fee for a 5/8- to 3/4-inch meter.
The schedule says the sewer minimum applies even if a property is unoccupied. For water, it says the minimum includes the meter-size debt fee plus water usage at 1,000 gallons even if no water is consumed that month.
Three modeled usage levels
The formula for this narrow account model is:
($32.75 × 1 ERU) + ($6.50 × 1 ERU) + ($10.50 × billed thousands of gallons, minimum 1) + $8
| Modeled water usage | Sewer rate | Sewer debt | Water usage | Water debt | Limited subtotal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 or 1,000 gallons | $32.75 | $6.50 | $10.50 minimum | $8.00 | $57.75 |
| 4,000 gallons | $32.75 | $6.50 | $42.00 | $8.00 | $89.25 |
| 8,000 gallons | $32.75 | $6.50 | $84.00 | $8.00 | $131.25 |
At or above the 1,000-gallon minimum, the sewer and debt components plus the first 1,000 gallons total $57.75. Moving from 1,000 to 4,000 gallons adds $31.50. Moving from 4,000 to 8,000 adds $42.00.
That step pattern reflects a fixed sewer charge in this schedule and a water charge that changes with the modeled gallons. It does not describe how an individual household’s total bill changed.
Why this is not a complete bill
The schedule contains other charges that do not belong in a generic one-ERU, small-meter model. Depending on the account and service area, a statement could involve:
- more than one ERU or a larger meter;
- Rustic Hills or Broadview Heights additions;
- a frontage tap-in amount;
- a deduct-meter administration fee;
- fire-line capacity or industrial pretreatment charges;
- delinquency, certification, disconnection, or other billing charges;
- permit, physical-tap, meter, vault, or system-investment charges; or
- credits, adjustments, prior balances, and later adopted rates.
We excluded every one of those. We also did not infer taxes or other statement lines not documented in the four-input model.
The frontage tap-in item deserves particular caution. The billing page says it can be included in monthly water billing and can accumulate for properties notified that water service is available. A reader with that line cannot reproduce the full statement using our table.
How to check a current statement
Use the model as a reconciliation worksheet:
- Confirm the utility is the Medina County Sanitary Engineer, not another city or provider.
- Find the account’s sewer ERU count and water-meter size.
- Record the billed gallons and whether the schedule minimum applies.
- Match every fixed and variable line on the statement to its current official schedule.
- Recalculate at source precision.
- Leave special-area, frontage, adjustment, and prior-balance items separate.
- If a later County action changed rates, use that adopted record instead of the older linked schedule.
The current web link is evidence of what the County billing page presented on our access date. It is not proof that no newer resolution, account rule, or later bill-specific rate applies.
Date and method limitations
The schedule’s January 1, 2025 update date and our August 1, 2026 access date answer two different questions. The first dates the document. The second records when it remained linked from the live billing page. We report both because calling it simply “the 2026 rate” would hide a material limitation.
No customer sample was collected, so there is no average usage or sample size. No private bill was reviewed. The three levels are calculation examples selected to show the minimum and two simple increments, not claims about typical households.
Source and methodology
Local Service Ledger reviewed the Medina County Sanitary Engineer billing page and its linked fee schedule on August 1, 2026. We held the account at one sewer ERU and a 5/8- to 3/4-inch water meter; applied the schedule’s 1,000-gallon minimum; calculated examples at 1,000, 4,000, and 8,000 gallons; and excluded every account-specific component not supported by the four-input model.
The County did not review our arithmetic, and we did not test its billing software or forecast a future rate.