Citizens Water maintenance bonds.
From $100. Enter your amount.
Before Citizens Energy Group (Citizens Water) accepts new water main or service-line work tied into the Indianapolis system, it requires a maintenance bond guaranteeing that work against defects for the warranty period. The utility sets the amount; pricing is 3% of the bond amount, $100 minimum. Your exact price appears instantly in the calculator, after a quick soft credit check that never touches your score.
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Enter your amount, consent to a soft pull, and file with Citizens Water. Here is the whole thing:
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Your business details, the bond amount Citizens Water required, and the effective date — plus a one-time consent to a soft credit pull.
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Most of these clear quickly. The credit check is a soft pull that never affects your score — it can affect approval and where in the range your price lands, never a hard inquiry.
File with Citizens Water
Submit the executed maintenance bond to Citizens Energy Group with your tie-in or developer agreement. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the maintenance bond actually guarantees
Citizens Energy Group owns and operates the water utility serving Indianapolis and much of Marion County as Citizens Water. When a developer or contractor installs water mains or service connections that will be accepted into that public system, the utility requires a maintenance bond before it takes the infrastructure over.
The bond is a workmanship-and-materials guarantee: it stands behind your installation for the maintenance (warranty) period — commonly one to three years — so that if a main, valve, or service line you installed fails because of defective work, the utility can have it corrected without the cost falling on its ratepayers.
It is not insurance for you — if the utility makes a valid claim and the surety pays, you repay the surety. Contractors who build to Citizens Water's standards and warranty their work treat the bond as a routine acceptance step.
You need this bond if you are
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including a one-time consent to a quick soft credit check. Submit once and your bond is typically issued the same day.
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Pricing from $100. Enter the amount the utility required and file the same day.