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02/22/12, 11:10 AM
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Goshen Farm
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Location: Zone 8a, AZ
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Water bill...
Keeping in mind that I am not yet used to having a water bill each month. I bout had a stroke when I saw this.
Water bill about 61.00 for one month
water used 17.00 and the rest is sewer, trash, fees, taxes, fees, taxes!
I have not even began my garden yet and this is AZ where it will need lots of water!
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02/22/12, 11:14 AM
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Location: EastTN: Former State of Franklin
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Ouch......
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02/22/12, 11:19 AM
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I've noticed that it costs more to carry it away than to deliver it. Friends sewer bill is lots higher than water bill. My water went up in price. So did garbage. That puts me right in line with you. $22 for garbage, about $30 for water last month.
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02/22/12, 11:52 AM
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I have a cabin/future home in southern WV, it is not in town but still had city water but we have just ben using the spring and rainwater barrel when we go down for the last three years. A few months ago I decided to have the city water turned because the spring runs slow sometimes. They came and turned water on and we went back home the next day, meter said we used 6 gallons. When I got my first bill it was 66.00, the bill was just a postcard and not detailed so I thought maybe it was for two months. I paid the bill and the next month we did not even go to the cabin, that bill was 70.99. I had the service turned off, I guess I will be using rainwater and spring again. I was expecting maybe a 20.00 service fee each month but not 70.00 when we did not even use any water
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02/22/12, 11:52 AM
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We pay $73 a month for sewer, water and garbage. Our water is not metered but a flat rate. Garbage includes waste pickup and compost pickup - separate. Without the sewers we would be up to our --- in alligators. Drainage and permafrost make septics messy.
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02/22/12, 12:33 PM
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Location: Ohio
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sisterpine
Keeping in mind that I am not yet used to having a water bill each month. I bout had a stroke when I saw this.
Water bill about 61.00 for one month
water used 17.00 and the rest is sewer, trash, fees, taxes, fees, taxes!
I have not even began my garden yet and this is AZ where it will need lots of water!
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Stand by for additional fees to be added on as soon as they can think of something. 
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02/22/12, 12:37 PM
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My sisters live in town here, and their water / sewage bill is combined. The water is one part, and the sewage is another part of the bill - but the sewage ALWAYS reflects how much water was used.
For example, if the water bill says you used 2000 gallons, the sewage bill is charging for 2000 gallons of water going in it. It doesn't matter that 500 gallons of that water was used to water your garden - for all intents and purposes to them - it all went down the drain.
Out in the small rural community my Father lived in which is city water, I was responsible for paying his bills when he was in the nursing home and died before we got the house sold. We didn't want to bother shutting off the water, because we were using it to clean and such, and his bill was only around $13.00 / month for using up to 1000 gallons.
It seems that some bills actual are based on the gallons used, and some are based on 0 -1000 gallons the bill is ___, 1001 - 2000 gallons the bill is ___.
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02/22/12, 02:01 PM
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That sounds about right for an arid region, mines usually higher. and yes thats where the city charges all its other fee's.
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02/22/12, 02:32 PM
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You might ask about yard watering - some places let you put in a meter for that so you don't pay the sewage on yard/garden watering. I'm not sure if that would be so in AZ though. Everyone there can't be paying that to keep their yards green.
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02/22/12, 02:35 PM
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Sisterpine, if you think about, $61/month is cheap, considering your living in a God forsaken desert (devoid of water). I'd imagine the early Arizonians would've loved to had 'easy water'.
Hoping you can escape someday, and get your own owned water source, and a few acres, soon!
My grandpa had an $1100 bill once... a line broke, and he filled up his pond... we wondered why granpa's pond was always full that summer. And, he had to indeed pay it all! Luckily, granpa had a pacemaker, with fresh batteries...
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02/22/12, 03:35 PM
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Location: Moving from NM to TX, & back to NM.
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Welcome to the town!
One of the benefits to the country where you have your own well and own septic to pay for up front.
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02/22/12, 03:44 PM
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Goshen Farm
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone 8a, AZ
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I know it is about normal, I am just in shock! Last time I lived here in 97 my biggest water bill was 105.00 in July and I had a huge garden and fruit trees and grapes and grass!
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02/22/12, 04:48 PM
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$14.00 base for 5000 gallons of water here. $2.00/thousand after that. Septic. I lived here in the early 80's, water was $10.00 all you wanted, no meters. We built the slow sand waterplant with a loan of $86,000 and $20,000 cash, new meters and rate was 10.00 for the first 5000 gallons. 360 services. Paid it off in 20 years. 2 rate increases in 30 years, not bad. No taxes added....James
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02/22/12, 04:50 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sisterpine
I know it is about normal, I am just in shock! Last time I lived here in 97 my biggest water bill was 105.00 in July and I had a huge garden and fruit trees and grapes and grass!
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Sisterpine, my son lives in Sierra Vista (just south of Tucson). He says there is a reason they don't have grass yards. LOL
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02/22/12, 05:35 PM
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We just got a letter stating our sewer portion of our bill will be increasing 10 or so a month BC the system needs upgraded to meet new standards. This of course came a month after the water price increase.
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02/22/12, 06:43 PM
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Your sewer bill is based on your water consumption, you could run 2/3 of it on your garden but your sewer bill will be charged for carryinmg allof it away...
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02/22/12, 06:48 PM
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Banned
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My water bill is $12 each month.
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02/22/12, 07:03 PM
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Water bill??? Sewage bill?? Garbage pickup???
Sometimes I am glad I live out in the country....
Alice in Virginia
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02/22/12, 09:23 PM
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SISTERPINE <> Have you thought about how this bill would compair to the cost of drilling your own well and still not having much water??
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02/22/12, 10:00 PM
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Location: New York
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61 dollars a month for water, sewer AND trash, isnt bad at all.
I pay 27 a month for trash here. And I will have to pay to get my septic pumped out, and I had to pay a TON to get the well fixed last summer 
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