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Your water, sewer and storm bill would rise 8.5% next year and 8.6% in 2028

· Bellevue Dispatch, issue 5 · All Bellevue news

AI illustration: Downtown Bellevue's lit towers at blue hour seen across the still water of Meydenbauer Bay from the Meydenbauer Bay Park pier
Downtown Bellevue from Meydenbauer Bay Park. AI illustration of the real place, checked against street-level imagery, November 2026.

Those are the rates the city's Environmental Services Commission recommended, and staff presented them at Tuesday's budget session. In both years water rises 6.7%, sewer 10.1% and storm 6.0%, driven by wholesale water and sewage-treatment costs and aging pipes. Bill assistance would widen to households at or below 80% of area median income, worth up to $900 a year. Public hearing October 27; adoption November 17. Source

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