The Board of Directors (Board) of the Carpinteria Valley Water District (CVWD or District) will hold a public hearing on July 22, 2026, in accordance with California Health & Safety Code sections 5473 to 5473.3, to consider collecting certain water charges on the property tax roll.  

In particular, CVWD’s Board of Directors adopted new charges on June 10, 2026 for its water service, including an annual charge to support capital costs related to the Carpinteria Advanced Purification Project (CAPP). CVWD will collect most of these charges through direct billing. However, the District may collect any or all of its charges on the property tax roll, and it wishes to do so for the annual CAPP charge noted directly above.  The intent of the Board is to collect charges for CAPP capital costs from property owners rather than renters given the long-term community benefit of the project.

Collection of charges through the property tax role does not change the rate of the charge as adopted on June 10, 2026, which are available on the District website: https://www.cvwd.net/water-rates. The rate of charges adopted by the Board do not include assessments by the County for administrative costs of the tax roll.

CVWD has prepared a report listing affected properties and the CAPP charge that will be placed on the tax roll for each property. This report is available for public review in the district’s office at 1301 Santa Ynez Avenue, Carpinteria, CA  93013.

Click here for a PDF of the list of affected properties for Fiscal Year 2026-2027

If a majority of affected property owners object to having these charges collected through the property tax roll, then CVWD must collect them another way. If there is no such majority protest, then the Board of Directors may transmit the report to Santa Barbara County to have these charges added to the property tax roll for fiscal year 2026–2027.

The public hearing will be held at the regular CVWD Board of Director meeting on July 22, 2026 at 5:30 PM at Carpinteria City Hall, 5775 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria, CA  93013.  The agenda will be posted no later than 72 hours in advance of the meeting and will be available on the CVWD website: www.cvwd.net/2026-07-22-board-meeting

If you have questions about this public hearing, please contact CVWD at 805-684-2816.

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