Titusville stormwater fee

The City of Titusville stormwater fee for 2026 is $160.44 per Equivalent Residential Unit (ERU), and the city's rate page lists $320.88 for 2027 as a proposed rate.

The table reproduces the Titusville Stormwater Rate Structure page, which held the rate at $91.69 from 2020 through 2022 and raised it each year from 2023. The 2027 line carries an asterisk: proposed rate, with the final rate to be determined at the August 25, 2026 City Council meeting.

For the charge on a specific Titusville parcel, the billing FAQ directs owners to the Stormwater Utility Management Division at 321-567-3832 for specific property information (Titusville stormwater billing FAQ).

A Titusville single family home is charged one ERU, a townhouse or condo half an ERU, and a commercial property the number of ERUs calculated for its own parcel.

The Titusville rate page defines an ERU as one residential quarter-acre lot with a runoff coefficient of 0.30, a lot size that reflects the average single family residence in the City of Titusville. A runoff coefficient of 0.30 means about 30% of the rain falling on a residential lot does not soak in and becomes runoff. Commercial properties usually come out above one ERU, the page explains, because their runoff is usually greater than a single family lot's.

The Titusville billing FAQ words the same unit differently: an ERU, determined through engineering analysis, is a gross area of 11,000 square feet with a coefficient of runoff of 0.30, and every detached single-family property is billed one ERU because its hydrologic response is substantially similar (Titusville stormwater billing FAQ). One city page describes the unit as a quarter-acre lot and the other as 11,000 square feet; both are stated here as written. The FAQ adds that the ERU serves as an index to compare runoff from properties with different amounts of impervious surface, such as rooftops, driveways, parking lots and streets, and the city's general FAQ names the size of the property and the intensity of its development as the two most important factors in providing stormwater management services (Titusville FAQ, Public Works stormwater).

Titusville bills the stormwater fee once a year as a non-ad valorem assessment on the property tax bill, collected by the tax collector and payable between November 1 and March 31.

The Titusville billing FAQ describes the charge as a service fee rather than a tax that covers the fiscal year from October 1 to September 30, and it has been charged since the Stormwater Utility was established in Titusville in 1990 (Titusville stormwater billing FAQ). Owners pay it even with a homestead exemption, because it applies to all developed property uses regardless of homestead. Tenants are not billed: like property taxes, the charge goes to the owner, and each landlord decides how a tenant shares it.

Paying early lowers the Titusville stormwater charge along with the taxes on the same bill, because the FAQ says the same discounts and penalties that apply to ad valorem taxes apply to stormwater charges collected on the tax bill. Florida law sets those discounts: 4 percent in November or within 30 days after the original tax notice is sent, 3 percent in December, 2 percent in January, 1 percent in February and zero percent in March (Florida Statutes 197.162). If a discount period ends on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, it extends to the next working day for payments delivered to the tax collector's office.

The Titusville stormwater fee pays for maintaining and operating the public stormwater system, flood prevention and response, building stormwater treatment facilities and water quality monitoring, according to the city's billing FAQ.

The inventory comes from the Titusville Public Works page, whose stormwater menu lists Indian River Lagoon stormwater projects including baffle boxes, Chain of Lakes, Draa Field Stormwater Park, littoral zone plantings, Space View Park and the St. John's Basin managed aquatic plant systems, plus a storm drain marker program and a living shoreline. The same page carries a city notice that Titusville has met and exceeded its nutrient reduction goals for the Indian River Lagoon under the Basin Management Action Plan (BMAP). Curb openings along Titusville roads lead to pipes that eventually discharge to either the Indian River Lagoon or the St. Johns River, the city FAQ notes (Titusville FAQ, flooding).

Titusville's FY2026 adopted budget expects $4,207,000 in stormwater revenue for the Stormwater Utility fund, up from $2,721,643 in actual FY2023 revenue.

The totals in the City of Titusville FY2026 adopted budget also carry grant and transfer lines: the Titusville fund shows a federal ARPA grant, a state stormwater management grant and a SOIRL/BOCC grant in earlier columns with no amount in the FY2026 adopted column, contributed capital of $2,545,190 in FY2023, and transfers from the ARPA fund in FY2023 and FY2024. The FY2026 budget also finances four replacement vehicles for Stormwater Utility Management totaling $199,300, and the Stormwater Utility Management organizational chart shows eight PW Technician (ROW) positions plus construction groups of three and four PW Technicians, each group under a crew supervisor.

The Titusville Stormwater Utility Management Division handles fee questions, parcel information and ditch maintenance at 321-567-3832.

The Titusville Public Works page lists the same number for streets and flooding emergencies after 4 p.m., on weekends and on holidays, and directs residents who ask who cleans the ditch behind a house to Public Works Stormwater (Titusville Public Works page). Public Works Administration lists a mailing address of 2000 S. Washington Avenue and phone 321-567-3846. The billing FAQ also routes specific property information requests to the division's email or 321-567-3832 (Titusville stormwater billing FAQ).

Last verified: October 21, 2026, by rereading the Titusville Stormwater Rate Structure page and its 2027 proposed-rate note, the stormwater billing FAQ, the city's general FAQ, the Public Works page, the Stormwater Utility fund pages of the FY2026 adopted budget and Florida Statutes 197.162.