Utility Billing

• Online at MyPayments, a secure, online service that allows utility invoice payments by credit card. 
• In person at Municipal Hall located at 10150 Bottom Wood Lake Road. Payment can be made with cash, debit or credit card. Please note: credit card payments will incur a transaction fee of 2%. 
• Online banking through your financial institution. Payee is 'Lake Country Utilities' and you must include the account number found on your utility bill (see example utility bill below). If additional digits are requested, add leading zeros. Please allow 2-3 business days processing time to ensure payment is received by the District by the payment date. 
• Cheque: please make payment to District of Lake Country and include the bottom portion of your utility bill. Payments sent by mail must be received by the due date. 

All unpaid balances past the due date will incur interest of 1.5% per month compounded annually. It is each customer's responsibility to make sure the bill is paid by the deadline to avoid penalties. Outstanding charges at December 31 are rolled into taxes in arrears and accrue interest.

Need to update your mailing address on your utility invoices? 

BC Assessment Authority 

Complete the form for a Lake Country property specifying: Area 19, Jurisdiction 331 and use the 8 digit Roll Number (no dots, dashes or spaces; and if the roll number only has 7 digits then a zero should be added before the 7 digits). 

All other water related user fees, including non-connected user fees for Local Service Areas such as Coral Beach and Lake Pine, see Water Regulation and Rates Bylaw [PDF/1.7MB] (Schedule A). 

The Sewer Parcel Tax:

• Applies to all parcels that are connected to or have the ability to be connected to the sewer collection system, meaning that the parcel in question abuts the sewer collection system.
• $275 per year per parcel.
• Appears annually on the Property Tax Notices.

Environmental Levy:

• Applies to all parcels in the District of Lake Country to provide for the eventual expansion of the sewer collection system.
• $75 per year per parcel.
• Appears annually on the Property Tax Notices.

User Fees:

• Applies to those connected to the sewer collection system.
• $250 for commercial and residential connections per year.
• $100 for secondary suits connections per year.
• Appears on the quarterly Utility Bills.

Excess Wastewater Discharge Fee:

A fee imposed on Commercial Customers who generate wastewater in excess of 230 cubic metres per year.

• Details on how this is calculated can be found in Schedule A of the Sanitary Sewer Regulation and Rate Bylaw 1176, 2022 [PDF/368KB].
• Appears on Quarter 1 Utility Bills.

For more information:

• Sanitary Sewer Regulation and Rate Bylaw 1176, 2022 [PDF/368KB].
• District of Lake Country Sewer Parcel Tax Bylaw 98-224 [PDF/129KB].

The District's Environmental Levy of $75 and a $275 Sewer Service Parcel Tax is applied annually. The Environmental Levy is for the eventual expansion of the sewer system and the parcel tax is levied on all properties capable of being drained into the municipal sewer system, whether or not the property is connected to the sewer, and supports the operations and maintenance of the municipal sewer/wastewater system.

Sewer user fees are charged on properties that are connected to municipal sewer. These fees formerly appeared on Property Tax Notices and now appear on Utility Invoices.

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 Capital Projects