I live in Longview, Washington.
I am single and live alone. I do three to four loads of clothes washing a week. I run the dishwasher every two days. I do not wash my car at my home nor do I water the plants in my garden as I live in a forest.
My water-sewer bill last month (it comes every two months) was for $196.00. My actual water base charge was $20.00 and the sewer base charge $58.00. The rest are: water consumption charge $15.00 and sewer consumption charge of $43.00. The rest is garbage pickup, storm water and utility taxes totaling $60.00.
I can understand someone putting a windmill up to power a pump for a well so they can water fruits and a garden.
As for the City of Longview, they pay their employees very well and the employees union? I believe it is SEIU.
Everyone on Free Republic should be familiar with that communist led union, correct?
the last house I lived in I put in a water sprinkly system, to avoid sewer tax on watering my land I had a seperate meter put in for only the sprinkling system...no sewer tax on that system...cut my bill in 1/2 of doing that.
Well, come on down to the suburbs south of Houston. My water bill is never higher than $33.00 a month. We have awesome flood control, I have a sprinkler system and water my yard every other day most of the year, take long showers, run the dishwasher daily and do lots of loads of laundry. Also covers twice weekly trash pick-up and I can put my trash out in plastic trash bags if I choose. Our flood control district also has added numerous parks and playgrounds throughout our area and we have two neighborhood pools.
I get concerned when our water bill goes up to 40 bucks a month when running the evaporative (swamp) coolers in the summer. This is from a small water company here in AZ.
$196 for two months of water & sewer? Are you serious? I pay approx. $25 per month for both!