Utilities in Cape Canaveral

Cape Canaveral splits its utilities among several providers: the City of Cocoa supplies drinking water, the city's own Public Works Services runs sewer, reclaimed water and stormwater, a contracted hauler collects trash, and Florida Power and Light supplies electricity (City of Cape Canaveral FAQs).

Billing works differently from the services: City of Cocoa Utilities, which the city FAQ calls the regional water provider, also bills sewer, stormwater and garbage customers for the City of Cape Canaveral (City FAQs). Billing questions therefore go to Cocoa at (321) 433-8400, while a sewer backup or a flooded street is a Cape Canaveral call.

Cape Canaveral's tap water comes from the City of Cocoa, whose utility lists the City of Cape Canaveral, Port Canaveral and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station among more than 85,000 accounts it serves in Brevard County (City of Cocoa Water Treatment page).

The water starts well inland. Cocoa operates a wellfield in southeastern Orange County as its primary source and pumps water from Taylor Creek Reservoir to the Dyal Water Treatment Plant, where it is treated and blended with treated groundwater (City of Cocoa Water Supply page). Cocoa lists three treatment facilities: the Wewahootee Water Treatment Plant, a 48 million gallon per day pretreatment facility, the 60 million gallon per day Dyal groundwater plant and the 12 million gallon per day Dyal surface water plant (Cocoa Water Treatment page). The same utility serves Cocoa Beach next door and describes its service area as roughly a third of Brevard County (Cocoa Water Treatment page).

Water Customer Service sits at 65 Stone St. in Cocoa, (321) 433-8400, and the Cocoa Utilities Department is at 351 Shearer Blvd., (321) 433-8700 (Cocoa Water Supply page). For water service at a Cape Canaveral home, the city FAQ points to City of Cocoa Utilities (City FAQs).

Sewer and reclaimed water are city services in Cape Canaveral, run by the Water Reclamation Division, which includes the Water Reclamation Facility, plant operations, the wastewater collection system, the reclaimed water system and a laboratory (Cape Canaveral Reclaimed Water page).

The division services the lift stations and collection lines, schedules utility line locates, connects and inspects reclaimed water service and manages the plant's Florida Department of Environmental Protection permitting (Water Reclamation Division). Sewer emergencies belong to the Public Works Services Department, with non-emergencies handled at (321) 868-1240 during business hours (City FAQs). Reclaimed irrigation water reaches only limited areas of Cape Canaveral through separate pipes, split into a North Section above Washington Ave., a South Section below it and the Ridgewood Ave streetscape, and it is off every Thursday for scheduled maintenance (Water Reclamation Division). Connection fees, zone watering hours and the plant's shoreline risk are in the sewer and reclaimed water guide.

Waste Pro is contracted for trash, recycling and yard waste within the City of Cape Canaveral, and City of Cocoa Utilities bills garbage customers for the city (City of Cape Canaveral FAQs).

Brevard County's Solid Waste Management Department runs the landfills, transfer stations, a mulching facility and the household hazardous waste collection centers, but it oversees curbside collection only for residents of unincorporated Brevard County (Brevard County Solid Waste Management). For hazardous waste, the Cape Canaveral FAQ sends residents to Brevard County Solid Waste at (321) 633-2042 (City FAQs). The county site also covers electronics disposal, prescription drug drop-off and storm debris collection (Brevard County Solid Waste).

Cape Canaveral runs its own stormwater system under a federal NPDES permit, paid for by a Stormwater Utility that City Council established in 2003 (Cape Canaveral Stormwater page).

The Cape Canaveral permit requires six best management practices: public education, public involvement, an illicit discharge program, construction site runoff control, post-construction runoff control and pollution prevention (Stormwater page). The city says a significant portion of its runoff drains directly into the Indian River Lagoon system, and its rules ban fertilizer use from June 1 through September 30 under a 2014 ordinance (Stormwater page). Eight baffle boxes sit on all major stormwater outfalls to trap trash and debris before it reaches the water, and the largest underground exfiltration system, finished in 2016 under Canaveral City Park, holds over 4,000 stormwater chambers that can capture approximately 931,000 gallons (City Endeavors page). Five floating vegetative islands in three ponds at Manatee Sanctuary Park and the Water Reclamation Facility pull nutrients out of stormwater before it reaches the lagoon (City Endeavors page).

A recent addition is the Center Street Pump Station, the city's first permanent pump station, activated on August 19, 2024 with help from a $467,500 Florida Department of Environmental Protection grant awarded in 2023; it serves the Center Street Drainage Basin, which drains to a single outfall on the Banana River Lagoon, and has a maximum flow rate of up to 6,500 gallons per minute (City Endeavors page). Blocked storm drains go to Public Works Services at (321) 868-1240, street sweeping runs monthly, and flooding can be reported by text or call to (321) 474-5728 or through the city's Floodwater Questionnaire (City FAQs).

Florida Power and Light supplies electricity to Cape Canaveral homes and businesses, and every outage or branch in a power line is reported to FPL at 1-800-4-OUTAGE (1-800-468-8243) (City of Cape Canaveral FAQs).

The city FAQ suggests getting the FPL agent's name and a ticket number so a report can be tracked, sends tree trimming near lines to FPL vegetation management at 1-800-226-3545, and asks residents to call Public Works Services at (321) 868-1240 if a Cape Canaveral street light is still out after 7 days (City FAQs). City Hall, the Water Reclamation Facility, the BCSO Building and Canaveral Fire Rescue Station #53 each have an emergency backup diesel generator that starts automatically when a power outage is detected, and the city says each can run three to four days at a time when fully fueled (City Endeavors page).

The sewer and reclaimed water guide is the detailed companion to this page, covering how the Cape Canaveral Water Reclamation Facility treats wastewater, what a reclaimed connection costs and when each zone can water (Water Reclamation Division).

Questions about a water bill, deposits or water quality belong with the City of Cocoa, which runs the supply and billing for Cape Canaveral (City FAQs), and the Cocoa utility pages on Digital Towns cover that system in depth. Flood zones and insurance for Cape Canaveral properties are covered in the Cape Canaveral safety guides, and beach and park rules sit in the government section. Stormwater questions start with the city's Public Works Services Department, the office named on the Cape Canaveral stormwater page for illicit discharge reports, at (321) 868-1240 or (321) 474-5728 after hours (Stormwater page).

Last verified: October 21, 2026, by checking the Cape Canaveral FAQ, reclaimed water, stormwater and City Endeavors pages, the City of Cocoa water treatment and supply pages, and the Brevard County Solid Waste home page.