Water Bill

[Helloitsme]

With all those stories on the news lately about people getting their water bills and them being in the thousands, I was not looking forward to getting mine. It came today, $47. Breathes sigh of relief...

[Ron]

I hadn't heard of the exceptionally high bills - what was the reason?

Good to hear you weren't included!

Hip, hip hooray for well water! 

[fishman]

Check out today's freep.  Inkster replaced all of their old meters with new ones.  Some of the bills are in the thousands.  They say that the old meters ran slow and did not charge correctly.  My last bill was for 84.  In Fraser they have a ready to serve change mine was 46 of my last bill.  I'm cutting back on water changes.

[linuxrulesusa]

Mine is actually lower than it was a year ago for the same 3 month period.  Fixing all the leaky faucets (tub, bathroom sink, kitchen sink) and the running toilet seemed to have helped a lot.    Especially considering I had no tanks a year ago and now I have ~500 gallons of tanks and trying to do at least 20% WC/week along with low stocking on most plus over-filtration.  If I start seeing thousand dollar water bills though, that will be an end to things. 

[Ron]

Check out today's freep.  Inkster replaced all of their old meters with new ones.  Some of the bills are in the thousands.  They say that the old meters ran slow and did not charge correctly.  My last bill was for 84.  In Fraser they have a ready to serve change mine was 46 of my last bill.  I'm cutting back on water changes.

Thanks for the heads-up. Here's the article for anyone interested:
http://www.freep.com/article/20130111/NEWS05/301110128/Hundreds-in-Inkster-steamed-over-sky-high-water-bills?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s

[Regalblue]

Mines about $100/month

[Marty]

Mine averages out to $60.00 a month

[Helloitsme]

Mine was for the period of 9/29 - 12/7/2012

[Regalblue]

Mine was for the period of 9/29 - 12/7/2012

$47 for that whole period?  Or $47 average per month?

[Steve]

3 month period mine runs between $65-$100 over the 3 months. The $100 is usually summer when I'm watering flower beds and the lawn.

[jcunningham0295]

Mine is usually around $60 to $70 a month.

[Helloitsme]

Mine was for the period of 9/29 - 12/7/2012

$47 for that whole period?  Or $47 average per month?

The whole period.

[Regalblue]

Well I hope I'm reading mine wrong then.

[auratus]

Mines Zero  :  )  have a well , screw water bills!

[Marty]

Mines Zero  :  )  have a well , screw water bills!

I'd rather have a water bill than crappy well water any day! 

I don't have to deal with a water softener, my water doesn't stain my clothes or my sinks, tub, etc.  It tastes better, and all of my fish do just fine in my city water.  What else am I forgetting?  I've never had to buy/replace a water softener system, or replace an electric pump (for the well).