Columbus Light & Water is pleased to anounce our new bill pay service to our Residential Customers granting you the the opportunity to pay your bill (maximum amount is $500.00) by Internet or over the telephone. EDS is a company Central Service Association has partnered with to offer this service. You will pay $4.50 for credit card payments and $2.50 for EFT checks. These fees will be collected by EDS at the time of the transaction.

The link for Internet payment is https://www.paybill.com/columbuslw

The toll free number to pay by phone is (866) 434-5432.

You must have your Columbus light and water department account number, amount of your bill and credit card information or bank information. EDS closes the batches for each day at 1:30 PM, central standard time and they send the batch to CL&W to post. So payments taken after 1:30 PM in the afternoon will not be posted until the following day around 3:00 PM.

We also have a link that customers can go to and View Their Bill. They will have to come in and get a user name and password to use this link. It is no charge to our customers.
https://obp.csa1.com/cis-online/columbus/logon.asp