Holy crap Batman!
Our water/sewer/trash bill is about $70/month. I can add electric and TV and not come up with $325....
Mayor Kaseem Reed is head of the Atlanta Watershed Department of the City of Atalanta. Commissioner Kishia L. Powell runs the department. All Watershed employees are employees of the City of Atlanta.
In adjacent DeKalb County, the County government is the Water Department. The water itself comes from the government made lakes that dammed up the river.
Where is the private water provider? in this picture? But true, there is massive corruption. My bill was $1088 for Dec-Jan. I could not get it adjusted down. My wife went in, played the Mexican immigrant game, spoke Spanish and broken English, played the victim card (rather than the factual card that I did not use 500 gallons of water per day) and got away with paying only $300.
Many water employees have been convicted and many more will be convicted. Despite the convictions, employees continue to steal ... steal both water department equipment and time and money. They are government employees. They are above the law... Somebody created that culture.
Apparently you could have bought some type of meter thing for 3k but without it they charged double. That was why I thought it was in error because of the double charge. I don't really remember the details.
I was out of there in two years to the day.