Melbourne Utilities Guide: Water, Sewer, Trash and Watering Days

The City of Melbourne Public Works and Utilities Department supplies drinking water, wastewater treatment, reclaimed water and stormwater service, while WM collects garbage, recycling and yard waste for the city (City of Melbourne Public Works and Utilities; Trash and Recycling).

Melbourne describes itself as a regional provider of drinking water, and the reach is wider than the city limits. Melbourne water flows to Melbourne Beach, Indialantic, Indian Harbour Beach, Satellite Beach, Palm Shores, Melbourne Village and unincorporated Brevard County south of the Pineda Causeway, and West Melbourne buys it wholesale (Water Treatment and Distribution). A home on the barrier island in Indialantic can therefore get a Melbourne water bill even though Melbourne City Council is not its town government. The Melbourne water service guide explains the treatment plants and the service area.

Two plants make the water. The John A. Buckley Surface Water Treatment Plant draws from Lake Washington, the third uppermost of the connected upper St. Johns River lakes and one of the few surface sources of drinking water in Florida. The Joe Mullins Reverse Osmosis plant opened in 1995 with 5 million gallons per day of capacity and pulls from four Floridan Aquifer wells about 650 to 850 feet deep (Water Treatment and Distribution).

Wastewater from about 45 square miles, mostly inside Melbourne, goes to two plants. The David B. Lee Water Reclamation Facility in the north has a permitted capacity of 6 million gallons per day, and the Grant Street Water Reclamation Facility in the south 5.5 million gallons per day (Water Reclamation). The Melbourne sewer services guide covers sewer rates and the sewer credit.

A broken water main, a reclaimed water leak or a sewer backup in Melbourne is reported to 321-608-5130 from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays and to 321-255-4622 after hours; the department office line is 321-608-5000 (Public Works and Utilities). Last verified: October 14, 2026, on the City of Melbourne website.

A Melbourne home inside the city pays a monthly base of $12.02 for water plus $6.87 per 1,000 gallons, and $16.68 for sewer plus $9.65 per 1,000 gallons (City of Melbourne Rate Table).

The same Melbourne Rate Table carries separate sewer lines for Brevard County ($32.79 base), Palm Bay ($32.79) and Cocoa Beach ($51.22) customers, and it points businesses to City Code Chapter 58 for non-residential rates (Rate Table). Connect fees are $250 for water and $100 for sewer.

Opening a Melbourne account takes the online Application for Water Service with a driver's license or ID, the service address and a lease or proof of ownership; the city replies within two working days. A $20 service initiation fee appears on the first bill, and the deposit can be billed there too (Open a New Account). Utility Billing answers 321-608-7100 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and keeps a 24-hour payment line at 888-607-6745 (City of Melbourne Utility Billing). The Melbourne utility billing and rates guide walks through deposits, past due accounts and bill assistance.

WM collects Melbourne garbage from the green-lid cart and recycling from the yellow-lid cart, and every Melbourne recycling route runs on Wednesday (City of Melbourne Trash and Recycling).

Garbage and yard waste days depend on the address, and the interactive map on the Melbourne Trash and Recycling page shows the collection days for each one. Carts go to the curb by 6 a.m. on collection day. Extra carts from WM cost $70 each, and a swap between the 35, 64 and 96 gallon sizes costs $25 through 321-723-4455 (Trash and Recycling).

Bulky items such as furniture go out on the Melbourne yard waste day, and a large pile or a clam truck pickup is booked with the city ECO Division at 321-608-5080 or with WM at 321-723-4455. Batteries and household chemicals go to the Sarno Landfill/Transfer Station at 3379 Sarno Road, whose household hazardous waste facility takes Brevard County residents Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Trash and Recycling). The Melbourne trash and recycling guide covers carts, yard waste limits and Sarno Landfill drop-off.

Melbourne watering days follow the last digit of the street address, and no lawn may be watered between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. or for more than one hour per zone (City of Melbourne Irrigation Schedule).

From the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, Melbourne homes with odd addresses or no address water on Wednesday and/or Saturday, even addresses on Thursday and/or Sunday, and nonresidential properties on Tuesday and/or Friday. In Eastern Standard Time each group drops to one day: Saturday, Sunday or Tuesday. The limits come from St. Johns River Water Management District rules and city ordinance, and they apply to private wells too (Irrigation Schedule). The Melbourne irrigation schedule guide explains the seasonal schedule and the soil moisture sensor variance.

Reclaimed water is the exception: it is not held to the year-round potable schedule. Melbourne reclaimed customers recycle an average of 2.2 million gallons a day, and the users include both city golf courses, Crane Creek Reserve and Mallards Landing, along with Orlando Melbourne International Airport, 5 parks, 2 high schools and more than 1,000 properties (City of Melbourne Reclaimed Water). Questions about connecting go to 321-608-5120. The Melbourne reclaimed water guide covers eligibility and connection steps.

Melbourne protects its tap water through a lead service line inventory, precautionary boil water notices after pressure loss, and a state-required cross-connection control program that guards against backflow (City of Melbourne Lead and Copper Program).

The Melbourne inventory summary as of June 8, 2026 counts 60,726 service lines: 41,789 non-lead, 0 lead, 0 galvanized requiring replacement and 18,937 of unknown material (Lead and Copper Program). Unknown means the city lacks records for the city side, the customer side or both, and owners of those lines get an annual letter. The Melbourne lead and copper program guide shows how to look up an address on the city map.

A Melbourne boil water notice follows a main break, power loss, other emergency or planned repair, because lost pressure can let contaminants into pipes; the city advises boiling or bottled water until bacteriological tests are complete (Precautionary Boil Water Notices). The newest notice on the list, for the Croton Road area including blocks of Sarno Road, Adams Avenue and Cindy Circle, was published October 14, 2026 (Croton Road Area notice). The Melbourne boil water notices guide explains how notices are delivered and lifted.

Melbourne runs the cross-connection control program that Florida Administrative Code 62-555.360 requires of every public water system, to stop water in customer plumbing from flowing back into the public system (Cross Connection Control). City Environmental Compliance answers at 321-608-5125. The Melbourne backflow and cross-connection control guide covers annual backflow tests and reporting.

Stormwater is a separate system that drains to the Indian River Lagoon, and the city calls runoff the number one source of pollution in the lagoon. Since a 2007 federal mandate passed through the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Melbourne has worked to cut nutrient loads, paid for by the stormwater utility fee and grants; dumping into a storm drain is reported to the Stormwater Hotline at 321-608-7341 (City of Melbourne Stormwater Utility).

Nine Melbourne utilities guides sit under this hub, each built on City of Melbourne Public Works and Utilities pages (Public Works and Utilities).

One Melbourne detail is out of date on the city's own pages. The reclaimed water page still lists Mallards Landing as one of the two city golf courses on reclaimed water (Reclaimed Water), while the city golf page now calls that course Harbor City Golf Course, formerly Mallards Landing, at 2750 Lake Washington Road (City of Melbourne Golf). Both names mean the same course.