Utility Water Usage Notice
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CStrickland
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I want to know what the average houses that don't have reef tanks are doing to get within 16 gpd of you!
seamonster124
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Frame it, post it above the tank
Reef Frog
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Holy smokes. Big brother really is watching you. But they did ask you nicely to register though. But I can here the echoes of that man in the leather trench coat saying "Your papers please".
I'm 100% for water conservation. Even mandatory restrictions during droughts or other emergencies. But it really ought to be looked at as a comparison against historic usage. I mean maybe you had some guests for two weeks. But asking for an X% reduction with some fair penalties for unexplainable non compliance and a fair appeals process seems quite reasonable.
But I can't imagine a 30 gallon aquarium spiking your usage to any large degree.
I'm 100% for water conservation. Even mandatory restrictions during droughts or other emergencies. But it really ought to be looked at as a comparison against historic usage. I mean maybe you had some guests for two weeks. But asking for an X% reduction with some fair penalties for unexplainable non compliance and a fair appeals process seems quite reasonable.
But I can't imagine a 30 gallon aquarium spiking your usage to any large degree.
echopiece
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Very true. However, I did fill my new 100 gallon tank during that period so I had an additional 300-400 gallons of usage. We are typically very low water consumers in this house, minus my water change consumption. I just find it funny how they sent me a letter. My one little water usage spike set off the alarm bells.
JMorris271
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I got those from my power company all the time when I was running a koi pond using 3 15k GPH pumps.Usually every 6 months.
I topped up my swimming pool this spring from the hose. Took about 24 hours. A week later I got a letter from the city saying my water was running uninterrupted for a day and I may have a problem. They said I should check for water leaks or other problems in my home. And at the end reminded me that whatever it was I was still responsible for the bill.
So nice of them to care enough to send a letter a week after a pipe may have broke in my basement mostly to tell me I owe them a couple hundred bucks.
So nice of them to care enough to send a letter a week after a pipe may have broke in my basement mostly to tell me I owe them a couple hundred bucks.
karimwassef
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you're within 12%. Is that even one standard deviation. Looking at the average is meaningless. I would write back demanding more detail. I need more data!!
CStrickland
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I wish my city would
We rent a unit out and we had some ... interesting folks in there for a while. They broke a thingy on the toilet but were too scared / lazy / high to tell us cause they were behind on rent at the time. A $4 part fixed it, but only after we got our water bill and figured out it had been running flat out for a month. We were lucky it wasn't worse b/c our bill is quarterly, but it was still a couple hundred iirc
Also, I like how ashamed the little water drop looks lol
Like his eyebrows and his red face
We rent a unit out and we had some ... interesting folks in there for a while. They broke a thingy on the toilet but were too scared / lazy / high to tell us cause they were behind on rent at the time. A $4 part fixed it, but only after we got our water bill and figured out it had been running flat out for a month. We were lucky it wasn't worse b/c our bill is quarterly, but it was still a couple hundred iirc
Also, I like how ashamed the little water drop looks lol
Like his eyebrows and his red face
I have well water, but get the same from National Grid for electricity.
Mine usually states that my usage is 150% more than my "Energy Efficient" neighbors! But they do send me a card and box of chocolate on Christmas!
Mine usually states that my usage is 150% more than my "Energy Efficient" neighbors! But they do send me a card and box of chocolate on Christmas!
Bent
I got nothin'
:eyeroll: I would have some choice words for them.
Something along the lines of "go walk off a bridge" I pay for the service you don't give it to me for free.
You pay for the amount of water you use so what's the big deal? It all goes down the drain, back to the source (river etc.) gets sucked back up by the plant, treated and recirculated anyway.
Usage of water by man is not what's causing droughts and water shortages. All the water we use mostly ends up back to the source eventually by one method or another.
I'm all for conserving some water during dry periods, but if your going to ration a service which you are paying for, it needs offered at ration prices. I'm sure that will happen reeeeeal soon.
I'm so sick of these utility companies charging you a premium price for these services and giving you sub par service.
Our electric company keeps raising our prices under the guise that they are using the money to clear right of ways, and you can obviously see where brush and trees have overtaken aerial lines and covered poles. So what happens anytime someone farts sideways around here? A tree limb falls on the lines and knocks power out. So the power is out here more than anywhere else I've ever lived, and I pay more for electricity here than anywhere I've ever lived. And now that the coal fired plants are dropping production, and coal companies are dropping production for more expensive alternatives my bill is now even higher.
Hell the drinking water here was tainted by chemicals for a month (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Elk_River_chemical_spill) and I still had to fight for a refund for that month and my water bill gallon for gallon here is higher than its ever been at this point. These idiots still raised our prices after that fiasco.
And don't even get me started on the broadband companies....
/rant
Something along the lines of "go walk off a bridge" I pay for the service you don't give it to me for free.
You pay for the amount of water you use so what's the big deal? It all goes down the drain, back to the source (river etc.) gets sucked back up by the plant, treated and recirculated anyway.
Usage of water by man is not what's causing droughts and water shortages. All the water we use mostly ends up back to the source eventually by one method or another.
I'm all for conserving some water during dry periods, but if your going to ration a service which you are paying for, it needs offered at ration prices. I'm sure that will happen reeeeeal soon.
I'm so sick of these utility companies charging you a premium price for these services and giving you sub par service.
Our electric company keeps raising our prices under the guise that they are using the money to clear right of ways, and you can obviously see where brush and trees have overtaken aerial lines and covered poles. So what happens anytime someone farts sideways around here? A tree limb falls on the lines and knocks power out. So the power is out here more than anywhere else I've ever lived, and I pay more for electricity here than anywhere I've ever lived. And now that the coal fired plants are dropping production, and coal companies are dropping production for more expensive alternatives my bill is now even higher.
Hell the drinking water here was tainted by chemicals for a month (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Elk_River_chemical_spill) and I still had to fight for a refund for that month and my water bill gallon for gallon here is higher than its ever been at this point. These idiots still raised our prices after that fiasco.
And don't even get me started on the broadband companies....
/rant
RWEngineer
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I must be missing a second image.
LOL....
and no one ever seems to notice the grow houses that have no lights , open windows or doors but lots of fans......
echopiece
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Bill, are you using solar panels to power your well pump?
gone fishin
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I am on a well and my neighbor operates a dairy farm. I doubt the power company even notices me.
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