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She’s got a blog and her own radio show. So she can carry this fight for a long time. Good on her.
Plugged in does not mean hooked up.
Is this just a water issue? septic tanks can contaminate.
I 100% guarantee tge city would go away if she pays the minimum monthly base hookup charge. What if she hooks up and doesn’t pay the monthly bill? Wiol tgey shut off her power and water?
This is my neck of the woods and I suspect it has something to do with the $17k assessment that is forced on each property owner when the city dual water system gets installed on their street. There are still outlying areas being incorporated and perhaps she could not afford to pay so they cut her off - when she managed to survive without it they came after her. Cape Coral is known for having crazy restrictions like not being able to park a pickup truck in your driveway.
Once incorporated, municipal services are designed and maintained with the expectation that they will be used. If this woman has access to a sewer water treatment facility and ever intends to sell her property to a buyer who expects to benefit from that facility, then she can't expect to opt out for her own convenience.
Many municipalities use the metered water supply to assign a value to the sewer treatment access. It just not practical to meter the toilet output. If this woman were to be connected to the sewer system and yet opted out of the water supply system, then she would be defeating the mechanism for fairly assessing the costs of the sewage treatement.
Living in a city (or a "town") has its advantages but also some burdens. Without more information we can't know how reasonable the woman is being.
Even the electrical system has costs associated with bringing the power to the home and not just delivering the electricity. My local power company supplied five hundred feet of underground cable to my place. They did this in anticipation of selling electricity.
Most utilities operate as monopolies because it isn't always feasible to permit competition. Just how many sets of power poles should we have along our streets, for example? People who want power or water connected are seldom shy about insisting that the utility pay for the cost of the connection.
The city doesn’t care about her not using eclectic. What they want are water and sewer fees and a part of those are a fixed minimum that you will be billed for even if you use zero city water
she might consider putting the dogs in a kennel for a while
I had planned on getting incarcerated somewhere. 3 hots and a cot, free television, climate-controlled living quarters, health care.
Hell, that's more and better than I have now.
(b) If you have your own water and septic, fine. However, the plumbing must be up to code and if you live within some jurisdiction or other, your septic cannot interfere or cause problems with area drainage, your house plumbing (if you have plumbing) must be up to code, and although not legally necessary, it's a wonderful idea to have your well water checked. None of this is usually a problem.
In Maine, many claim to "be off the grid," yet do impact neighbors. (E.G., build a damn for low-head hydro and you affect flow downstream.) OTOH, everything usually works out OK if the "independents" are just somewhat cooperative, not raving Masshole hippies, or wannabe "mountain men" who take potshots at compliance officers, although some of whom deserve it!
In Florida, which is by-and-large inhabited by 30 Million excess Floridiots, wells can be a problem because of a rapidly dropping water table, which is causing the region, not intended to be inhabited by our species, no end of problems large and small.
You wanna go totally off the grid? Not generally all that feasible an idea in a suburban setting, although it can be done. Go for it out in the hinterlands.
Deal with the authorities? Is she a good shot? Maybe she can take out a dozen or so before they get her!
What was the original purpose of the code? To make life safer. She's safe.
The new purpose of the code is compliance. This is true throughout America. We've been safe for a half century.