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BUDGET / FINANCIAL

The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) operates from two budgets: one for capital projects, primarily construction projects, and another for the operation and maintenance expenses, mostly related to the day-to-day collection, conveyance, and wastewater treatment. We do not handle direct customer billing. In effect, we're a wholesaler, sending bills to the twenty-nine communities we serve, and the communities are the retailers handling direct customer billing.

Capital charges, such as property taxes, primarily fund the capital budget. Money for our operations and maintenance budget is collected mainly through sewer user charges, which individual customers pay based on use. Most communities bill these fees as part of their water bills.

Your total sewer bill for your home or business includes charges from the community where you live. All of the communities MMSD serves own and operate their own sewer systems, which drain into MMSD's regional sewer system.

 

Capital and Operation & Maintenance Budgets

Financial Reports

Cost Recovery Manuals

Official Statements

Climate Bond Certified

MMSD is Climate Bond Certified, which aims to provide a robust approach to verifying that funds are being used to finance projects and assets that are consistent with delivering a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy.

Clean Water State Revolving Fund Projects

The Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSR) program is administered by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources with joint funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Wisconsin. These projects provide water quality benefits, such as, but not limited to, reducing combined sewer overflow (CSO) events. lessening nutrient pollution, reducing contaminant levels or water pumping costs, or improving Lake Michigan and/or the Menomonee, Milwaukee, or Kinnickinnic Rivers for community residents and businesses in and near MMSD.

CWSR programs operate across the country to provide states and communities with the resources needed to maintain and improve the infrastructure that protects our nation's valuable water resources.

To view the MMSD projects partially or fully financed by the CWSRF that consist of construction upgrades and improvements to facilities. 

To request a historical MMSD budget or financial report, please submit a records request.