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BudmanTX

BudmanTX

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lokie said:
The water co hosed us for 4 months.

When the bill went up we checked our end and there was no reason that our bill should have been higher than expected.
When we complained they said that the meter had been changed so it was new and recently tested.
I told them I did not believe them and wanted to have my own tech test it.

It got pretty intense. I refrained from giving them the royal cussing they so richly deserved so the
convo went on for longer than they probably expected.:-P

The only solution they would offer was they would test it again and if it was faulty they would fix it at no charge but if
it tested good then I would be responsible for the test bill.:wall:

The next months bill was back to what was expected to be normal and no further contact was made.

This same type of issue has happened to 2 of my family members and several of our friends too. All of these occurrences
have happened randomly over the the entire valley.

I am only left to believe that somehow they systematically have screwed a large portion of the public.:finger:

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talk about screwing people.....

we had that when the shop was in town. The local water company put a new fee on the water bill...aka water run off fee....we started researching....the mf's are charging you for rain water running off you house and or buisness that goes in the sewer....and the charge is more for buisnesses than it is for the public....basically they're screwing people of rain water coming off your roof....when we moved....water bill went down to what it should be...$40 instead of $300...
 
Bareback

Bareback

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BudmanTX said:
talk about screwing people.....

we had that when the shop was in town. The local water company put a new fee on the water bill...aka water run off fee....we started researching....the mf's are charging you for rain water running off you house and or buisness that goes in the sewer....and the charge is more for buisnesses than it is for the public....basically they're screwing people of rain water coming off your roof....when we moved....water bill went down to what it should be...$40 instead of $300...
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How the fuck can they charge you for rain... how can that be metered.... dude I used to do waste water treatment plants and storm water is a major cause of sewage spills, but that totally blows my mind. Holy shit I can't believe they haven't had a class action filed on them for that....

Hey man I might have missed it, but how's your situation with your family working out... well I hope.
 
BudmanTX

BudmanTX

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Bareback said:
How the fuck can they charge you for rain... how can that be metered.... dude I used to do waste water treatment plants and storm water is a major cause of sewage spills, but that totally blows my mind. Holy shit I can't believe they haven't had a class action filed on them for that....

Hey man I might have missed it, but how's your situation with your family working out... well I hope.
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most people in the city don't know.....in fact we started telling people about that, all the shops around the area. Next thing we know the taxes of the shop doubled, the shop moved not to long after...guess they didn't want us telling people....lol....we still do...before i was lets say let go...we were telling people about...we've even told them to write the board members, and the local gove people to get it off......we've heard through the wires that people are wiseing up....we know a few people on that side of town....they pay the water bill, just not that fee....more and more people are starting to wise up too....which is cool...

moral of the story, watch you water bill and electric bill...there will be something on there like a new fee or something....most people don't know till you question it...
 
lokie

lokie

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Bareback said:
How the fuck can they charge you for rain... how can that be metered.... dude I used to do waste water treatment plants and storm water is a major cause of sewage spills, but that totally blows my mind. Holy shit I can't believe they haven't had a class action filed on them for that....

Hey man I might have missed it, but how's your situation with your family working out... well I hope.
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We get a "rain tax" too. $125 a year.:finger:>:(

I don't agree with it but there is little to do to combat it.o_O
It is only a justification to take more than they already squeeze from us.

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tangerinegreen555

tangerinegreen555

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I don't get it.

Here, you have sanitary sewers that go to a water treatment plant and storm sewers that just run off.

You're not allowed to have rain spouts going into the sanitary sewer and they do dye tests to make sure that's not happening.

My buddy got hammered for 8K in sewer line work because his township detected that water was getting into the sanitary sewer. Not his fault, 1960's construction with terra cotta pipe that broke up.

Definitely would suck but they want zero rain in sanitary sewers around here. Zero tolerance.

And sewage is metered from water usage.
 
Bareback

Bareback

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BudmanTX said:
most people in the city don't know.....in fact we started telling people about that, all the shops around the area. Next thing we know the taxes of the shop doubled, the shop moved not to long after...guess they didn't want us telling people....lol....we still do...before i was lets say let go...we were telling people about...we've even told them to write the board members, and the local gove people to get it off......we've heard through the wires that people are wiseing up....we know a few people on that side of town....they pay the water bill, just not that fee....more and more people are starting to wise up too....which is cool...

moral of the story, watch you water bill and electric bill...there will be something on there like a new fee or something....most people don't know till you question it...
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I live out in the country and I have a sceptic tank, a couple of years ago our area formed a water authority and the bill doubled. The authority buys the water from the people we used to buy it from and then sells it to us...... I'm not sure why all this changed, but it did we get the same water and pay more than double for it. Before the change our bill was between 15-19$ and now it's 45-60$ .

But there's some dude in a new white dully service body truck towing a tiny back hoe around I see them every day and then I stick arm out and say something a cursory tune ..... I'm not sure if it's hepling....... but my area only had one causetion lights.and I spelled it wrong.
 
curious2garden

curious2garden

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lokie said:
We get a "rain tax" too. $125 a year.:finger:>:(

I don't agree with it but there is little to do to combat it.o_O
It is only a justification to take more than they already squeeze from us.

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We do not have a rain tax. We live in a desert therefore our legislators in their infinite wisdom did not plan for rain. Every time it rains my neighborhood looks likes this because NO STORM DRAINS.
 
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