Attention Utilities Customers: Sarasota County’s Public Utilities has contracted Vanguard Utility Service to upgrade existing water meters throughout Sarasota County. This upgrade will allow our staff to read your water meter using the latest technology. This project is in progress and planned to be completed within the next five years. Residents will receive a letter by mail no more than 30 days and no less than seven days in advance notifying them that their area will be serviced. This service will take 15 minutes and will not disrupt the customer. Customers will receive a door hanger notifying them when the upgrade has been completed. There is no need to boil water because of this service. If you have any other questions, please contact us at 311 or 941-861-6790.

Sarasota County’s Public Utilities Department maintains and operates approximately 104,530 water connections, 91,989 waste water connections and 142,000 reuse connections. The department is also responsible for providing drinking water to 268,026 customers in the Unincorporated County.

Sarasota County water customers use approximately 80 gallons of drinking water per person per day. The county gets its drinking water from several sources, including 10 wells at the Jacaranda site in Venice, and 16 wells on the T. Mabry Carlton, Jr. Memorial Reserve where the Carlton Water Treatment plant is located.

The Carlton Water Treatment plant alone provides six million gallons of treated drinking water a day to county residents and businesses. Sarasota County also purchases drinking water from Manatee County and the Peace River/Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority.

Public Utilities workers maintain and service 1,420 miles of drinking water pipes, 540 miles of force mains, 800 miles of gravity mains and 98 miles of reclaimed water pipes.

We take a multi-disciplinary approach to managing our water resources, and our goal is to balance the needs of people with the needs of the environment to manage our water resources effectively. Through the department’s efforts and the efforts of our partners, we work to provide a safe water supply, flood protection, water quality and maintain our natural resources and systems.

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Sarasota County Utilities has launched Paymentus, a new payment and account management system to help streamline and improve online payments for our Utilities customers. Utilities autopay customers can enroll in Paymentus for online credit and debit card autopayments. 

Learn more about Paymentus at www.scgov.net/Paymentus

Sarasota County Water Service Line Inventory: Public and Private

The EPA announced the development of a revision to the Lead and Copper Rule, to better protect communities from lead exposure. Within this revision, utilities are to develop a comprehensive service line inventory on private and public potable water lines. To expedite this process, we asked residents to fill out a short survey to self-report their privately owned service line. View our full inventory of Sarasota service lines below:

Sarasota County Service Line Inventory