Fort Pierce Utilities Guide

In Fort Pierce, one public utility, the Fort Pierce Utilities Authority (FPUA), supplies electricity, water, sewer, natural gas and fiber internet, and the City of Fort Pierce collects the trash.

Electric, water, wastewater, natural gas and FPUAnet are the five lines of business the authority names, and it describes itself as community-owned public power (authority About page). Garbage, recycling, yard waste and bulk pickup are handled by the Solid Waste Division of the City of Fort Pierce Public Works Department at 52 Savannah Rd. (Public Works solid waste page). The two meet on one bill: the city's garbage rate page says FPUA Utilities bills residents and commercial businesses monthly for all trash services, and that property taxes do not pay for solid waste collection (city solid waste rate page).

The table below sorts each household service in Fort Pierce by provider and the phone number each agency publishes.

Fort Pierce electricity is delivered by FPUA, which holds shares of Florida Municipal Power Agency plants, including the St. Lucie Nuclear Plant, through its FMPA participation.

FPUA's history page says the HD King plant was decommissioned in 2008 when the FMPA Treasure Coast Energy Center, a 300 MW gas-fired combined-cycle plant off Selvitz Road, began operating, and that FPUA's FMPA entitlements include 20,000 kW from the Stanton Power Plant and 13,000 kW from the St. Lucie Nuclear Plant (utility history, electric section). Power in Fort Pierce goes back to a city electric light plant paid for with 1911 bonds, and system demand has climbed from 75,000 kWh to 605,000,000 kWh a year, by the same account.

The FY 2026 budget counts 29,880 electric customer services billed and plans electric revenue of $80,644,702 (authority budget for fiscal 2026). Outages in Fort Pierce are reported to FPUA at (772) 466-7703, the number printed at the top of the FPUA site alongside a link to its outage map (authority home and About pages).

FPUA supplies Fort Pierce drinking water from its 25th Street treatment plants and handles sewage, and its 2026 resolutions raised water and wastewater charges 2.23 percent.

Water comes from shallow aquifer wells treated by lime softening and from Floridan Aquifer wells treated by a reverse osmosis plant added in December 2002, according to the FPUA history page; sewage moves through 116 lift stations, pumped from the mainland to the Island Water Reclamation Facility on Hutchinson Island (utility history, water and wastewater sections). The fiscal 2026 plan shows 23,480 water and 17,460 wastewater customer services billed (authority budget for fiscal 2026).

Rates move by board resolution. The 2026 water resolution, UA 2026-04, lifted customer and volume charges by 2.23 percent, tying the increase to the Florida Public Service Commission's 2025 price index, and bills metered use beyond the included gallons at $5.29 per 1,000 gallons from March 1, 2026 (water rate resolution UA 2026-04). Its sewer counterpart, UA 2026-05, applies the identical 2.23 percent index adjustment to wastewater charges (wastewater rate resolution UA 2026-05). Mandated projects take 52 percent of FPUA's FY 2026 to FY 2030 capital plan, the budget explains, mostly because the wastewater plant is leaving Hutchinson Island and the Indian River Lagoon shoreline (authority budget for fiscal 2026).

Yes, FPUA sells both natural gas and FPUAnet fiber internet, and the FY 2026 budget counts customer services for each.

Gas has been a city utility since 1962, when Fort Pierce built a gate station on Angle Road for under $12,000, and around-the-clock emergency call-outs for appliances and piping are part of the service today (utility history, gas section). Fiscal 2026 projections show 4,260 gas services and 633 FPUAnet services, against 340 FPUAnet services the year before (authority budget for fiscal 2026).

The same budget describes FPUAnet as offering dedicated internet access, fiber optic transmission and bandwidth connections, and dark fiber, and says new fiber zones in fiscal 2026 reach part of South Hutchinson Island and extend further downtown. Gas and FPUAnet each have their own current rate resolution, UA 2026-03 for natural gas and UA 2026-06 for FPUAnet, on the authority's resolution list (current rate resolutions list).

The City of Fort Pierce collects household garbage twice a week and recycling, yard waste and bulk items once a week for $34 a month on the FPUA bill.

In Fort Pierce, green garbage carts are emptied twice per week, blue recycling carts once weekly, and black yard waste carts and bulk piles once weekly; carts must be at the curb by 7:00 AM on collection day, unblocked and 5 feet apart (Public Works solid waste page). Public Works Customer Service answers at (772) 467-3794, Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 5 PM except holidays.

The $34 monthly curbside rate covers those collections; an additional cart is $21.44, the multifamily rate is a $28 per unit minimum, and excess loads are billed at $6 per cubic yard of yard waste over 4 cubic yards and $10 per cubic yard of bulk waste over 2 cubic yards (city solid waste rate page). The city FAQ defines bulk waste as items that do not fit in the 96-gallon green cart, such as furniture, appliances, mattresses, carpet and large toys, and excludes tires, batteries, paint, drywall, concrete and contractor waste (Fort Pierce FAQ on bulk waste).

New Fort Pierce accounts for power, water, sewer, gas and trash billing are opened with FPUA, which takes walk-in customers at its South 6th Street customer service center.

Commercial FPUA customers fill out an online application, then wait up to three business days for a reply giving the new account number and required deposit; electricity is billed in arrears, so a deposit or an alternative such as a bond comes first, and city and county inspections must be passed before a permanent electric hookup (commercial service instructions). Moving an existing account is handled by phone through the main customer service number or by email.

FPUA deposit amounts follow resolution UA 2026-01, and the current electric schedule is UA 2026-02 (current rate resolutions list). Under the city charter, the Fort Pierce City Commission is responsible for approving FPUA's rates and budget (utility history).

One deeper guide sits under this hub, on the authority itself; everything else on Fort Pierce utilities is answered above by service.

The Fort Pierce Utilities Authority guide is the place for board structure, customer counts by system, plant locations and account steps. Questions about trash days, bulk pickup and the $34 monthly charge stay with the City of Fort Pierce Solid Waste Division and its rate page (city solid waste rate page).

Last verified: October 22, 2026, when the FPUA About, history, rates and business service pages, the FPUA FY 2026 budget, both 2026 water and sewer resolutions and the City of Fort Pierce solid waste pages and FAQ were read again for this hub page.