My bill to water my one-acre lot was $500 in August. It is now burning as I have given up waiting on rain and turn it on every third day to water the bushes. It will go dormant in a month anyway.
There’s something flaky happening with water bills in cities all around the DFW area. It may be state-wide.
In our neighborhood, with no increase in water rates, August bills spiked to double or triple the same time last year. The bills claim a huge increase in usage, and it’s the consumer’s word against the city.
However, in multiple instances, the home owner wasn’t even living in the house during the disputed time and could nont possibly have used that much water.
These are fradulent bills, probably a result of new meters or maybe a software glitch, but there’s no proof and the city isn’t interested. Sounds like what’s happening to you.