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The Cottage Grove Water Utility's commitment to the community:

• Make every effort to provide a safe, potable supply of drinking water to meet our customers' needs, now and into the next millennium. It's our commitment! It's our profession!
• Be a proactive water utility that strives to meet the high quality drinking water standards that our customers deserve.
• Sustain a commitment to high quality customer service now and into the next millennium.
• Stay dedicated to providing and preserving this treasured natural resource for our children and future generations.
• Maintain a community-owned water utility that we can all be proud of.

The Utilities division of the Public Works Department is responsible for the maintenance, operation and repair of the following city utilities:

• 150 miles of water main
• 110 miles of sanitary sewer main
• 1,400 fire hydrants
• 2,000 gate valves
• 9,400 customer service connections
• 1 booster station
• 1 lift station
• 10 municipal wells with a pumping capacity of 13.7 million gallons per day
• 6 water storage facilities with storage capacity of 7,150,000 gallons
• 2,050 street lights

Streetlights
The City of Cottage Grove owns, operates and repairs 2,050 city streetlights. In addition to the city streetlights, the Public Works streetlights division also repairs 325 non-city streetlights owned by XCEL Energy, as necessary. The streetlights division is also in the process of continually replacing older city streetlights that have deteriorated over the years. To report a burned out streetlight, please contact the Public Works Department.

Is there a street light out in your neighborhood? Go to the City's Citizen Action Center to fill out a street light maintenance request.

Shovel Fire Hydrants
The Fire Department and Utilities Division asks residents to shovel out fire hydrants near their homes. Keeping hydrants clear of snow substantially reduces the time it takes firefighters to get into service to put out a fire.

Water Quality: Improvements
The Cottage Grove Water Utility is continuously maintaining and upgrading the infrastructure required to bring the residents and businesses of the City a safe and abundant supply of water. The Highland elevated storage tank has a new look, with new paint and City logo. To help improve our pumping capacity, a new well is being built off of 70th Street and Idsen Avenue. The new well will be in service in the spring of 2005.

Water Quality Report (2009)

Water Quality Report (2008)
Rate and Billing Information

Water Main Flushing

		Utilities Information
		Water Quality Report (2009) Water Quality Report (2008) Rate and Billing Information

Water Quality / Hardness
Chlorine: 0.63 ppm
Fluoride: 1.15 ppm
Alkalinity: 236 mg/L
pH: 7.6
Hardness: 298 mg/L (17 grains per gallon)
mg/L = milligrams per liter or parts per million