Quartzsite issues water and wastewater notice before holiday rush

Quartzsite posted a Notice of Water & Wastewater Adjustment on June 30, putting utility costs back in front of residents just as the July 4 holiday period and peak summer use were about to hit. The town’s utilities page ties the notice to Water Rate Adjustment Res. No. 22-11 and Wastewater Rate Adjustment Res. No. 22-12, showing the change sits inside a longer-running rate framework rather than a one-off alert.

For a typical household on the wastewater side, the 2026 schedule already set a residential base charge of $25.50 for a house or mobile home, up from $20.00 in 2022. Accounts using town water also faced a per-1,000-gallon wastewater charge of $3.18 in 2026, compared with $2.49 in 2022. The wastewater plan also covered commercial and RV park customers, which puts Quartzsite’s mobile-home parks, short-term visitors and seasonal residents squarely inside the impact zone.

The water side follows the same policy track. Quartzsite Resolution No. 22-11 says the town established increased water fees and service charges effective August 1, 2022, and annually thereafter. Council minutes from July 12, 2022 show the Quartzsite Town Council adopted both Resolution No. 22-11 for water and Resolution No. 22-12 for wastewater.

Arizona law sets the procedural guardrails around those changes. Under A.R.S. § 9-511.01, a municipality must make supporting rate data public, hold a public hearing, and wait 30 days after adoption before an increase takes effect. The statute also requires rates to be just and reasonable, which gives residents a legal basis to scrutinize how the town is setting prices for water and sewer service.

Quartzsite’s utilities page lists the town’s contact email as ebrinkerhoff@quartzsiteaz.org, giving residents a direct line for billing questions and service clarification. In a desert town whose seasonal economy depends on RV users, winter visitors and year-round households using the same system, even a small adjustment can land differently from one address to the next. The next utility statements will show how the June 30 notice translates into monthly bills across Quartzsite.