2026 - 2030 Surrey Financial Plan

MESSAGE FROMTHE CFO/GENERAL MANAGER, FINANCE

6.0 SEWER UTILITY FINANCIAL PLAN—SERVICE PRIORITIES

The Sewer Utility provides service to more than 72,500 metered accounts, helping to support the building of a healthy, sustainable community. Any projected funding requirements for sewer utilities are met by a corresponding increase in user fees. Due to an increase of 1.4% in the Metro Vancouver sewerage rates and the Utility’s ongoing operating and capital cost demands, an increase in the sewer rates is necessary for 2026. Overall, for 2026 the sewer utility metered rate increased by $0.0320 per cubic metre of discharge volume or a 1.37% increase over 2025. The sewer utility rate for non-metered customers increased based on the ‘average’ discharge of non-metered accounts and will also reflect the rate increase of $0.0320 per cubic metre of discharge volume or a 1.37% increase over 2025.

The Metro Vancouver sewer rates are projected to increase an average of 9.10% per year for each of the remaining four years of the Five-Year Plan.

These funding requirements will be addressed through increases in the sewer rates over the next several years. For 2026, the average metered single-family dwelling will pay $747.46 ($737.32 in 2025) for sanitary sewer, based on an average sewerage discharge of 316.8 cubic meters per year, calculated at 88% of the estimated volume of water consumed.

This increase to the sewer utility rates has been reflected in the 2026-2030 Financial Plan—Self-Funded Utilities.

7.0 SOLID WASTE UTILITY FINANCIAL PLAN—SERVICE PRIORITIES

The City provides weekly residential curbside organic waste collection with alternating bi-weekly garbage and recycling services to approximately 108,200 single-family households and 42,000 secondary suites. The City also provides centralized recycling services to 35,200 customers in apartment buildings, with approximately 50% of these households receiving weekly organic waste collection services. The City processes all the organic waste it collects at curbside into renewable natural gas at the Surrey Biofuel Facility. The Solid Waste Utility also provides street sanitation services to ensure the cleanliness and beautification of the City. These services include illegal dumping collection, large item pickup program, litter pickup services, streetscape litter bin collection and several clean up campaigns, including the "Our City" campaign and Focus Newton, an initiative to enhance and beautify Newton. In 2025, Metro Vancouver's tipping fee increased by 5% ($7 per tonne) resulting in a tipping fee of $148 per tonne. Metro Vancouver is projecting that the Solid Waste tipping fee will increase by $8 per tonne annually from 2027 to 2029 and by $9 in 2030.

City of Surrey | 2026—2030 Financial Plan | Executive Overview

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