I'm lucky enough to live in an apartment but Raleigh water... my mom and her neighbors just got bills for $100-$150... for 2 months of water... not even HALF was for water usage.

I'm almost shocked at this. My mom has never paid more than $60 for water in her life and suddenly this? Anyone else experiencing this or did the meter guy just falsify readings or a program auto guess?

11/2/2005 1:47:27 PM

Could be a leak between the meter and the house. That happened to us once. The water bill doubled in one month with no apparent change in usage. We left the water on (at the meter only), locked up the house, and came back to find that we had used several thousand gallons without ever turning on a faucet. They had to dig up and replace the supply pipe. However, given that it has happened to more than one family in your case, I suppose that's an unlikely explanation.

11/2/2005 1:52:52 PM

did they up the rates?

i know that while i was there they implemented the storm wastewater charge based on how much sq. ft. your land covered.

it's steadily getting more expensive to use water in NC, unless you have a well. if you do have a well, then you'll have asshole people reporting you to the city and forcing you to put up a "we have a well so fuck off" sign.

11/2/2005 1:57:30 PM

i just got the bill ... $102.90 for two months. ...

11/2/2005 3:44:06 PM

Maybe we're still in a "7.5 weeks water deficit", as told on the news.

Lack of an item = higher prices. EC 201.

11/2/2005 3:49:57 PM

the government isnt that fluid

it would be great if it was though

11/2/2005 4:49:23 PM

Ok I hate:

the 16.60 "storm water" fee... it hasn't rained in like a month... and before that it didn't rain much at all
the 5.20 recycling fee... we have never recycled a single can through the city... in fact I used the city recycling bin (plus a clean liner) to make the last liquor luge...

thats $21.80 is random unneccessary(sp?) charges... thats a case and a half of beer or an entire trip to a bar!!!

11/2/2005 6:56:11 PM

My bill is weird too. It says my usage is 10, but it has always been 3-4 in the past.

11/2/2005 7:20:46 PM

$40, up from 30, but i did water my lawn for an hour and a half every day for two weeks

11/2/2005 7:25:49 PM

ours jumped from about an average $40 up to $100

11/2/2005 7:27:50 PM

Maybe we need to all show up in city hall in the morning.

11/2/2005 7:31:39 PM

well we are in mandatory water conservation at the moment... falls lake (raleigh's reservior) is at 30% normal volume.... I'm sure it's no big deal

11/2/2005 8:13:23 PM

nothing to do with the water shortage.

11/2/2005 11:22:00 PM

$37 and wtf recycling fee? we dont even have a recycling place in our apartment complex!

11/2/2005 11:28:29 PM

Good thing my apt complex pays the water bill. Fuck them for charging us $840 for a 2BR/2BA anyway. Not that it's that bad, shit's just fucked up.

11/3/2005 2:26:32 AM

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"$37 and wtf recycling fee? we dont even have a recycling place in our apartment complex!"

Probably akin to people paying money in property tax to the public schools even though they do not have children. You pay into the program regardless of whether or not you use it.

Over the past year Cary's water bill has gone up little by little (so no one will notice IMO) to the point where it is $10-$12 more a month for the exact same usage. I'd have to check the records, but it also seems like the water bill comes every 3.5 weeks as opposed to once a month.

What happened to the water bills in Raleigh where you would get one bill for $40 every two months? I remember thinking that Cary should just piggy back on Raleigh's services and only charge its residents $30 per month as opposed to the soon-to-be $50/month.

11/3/2005 8:06:57 AM

i heard on the news that the water bills would be going up soon... but i can't remember why or for how long

so i guess my post is kind of useless :/

11/3/2005 8:15:20 AM

yeah so i guess paying higher water bills is gonna help the city make more water to help us out of this "drought"

whats even worse is the water restrictions in effect, so you cant even use what you are paying out the ass for.

11/3/2005 8:20:17 AM

^^Once they go up, bills do not come down.

11/3/2005 8:46:35 AM

mine is around $70-$90 every month. and only $20 of it is from water

11/3/2005 9:30:25 AM

Thats what happens when it never rains

11/3/2005 9:43:15 AM

I checked my meter this morning and they had misread it. I called in the reading and they are going to send me a corrected bill.

11/4/2005 12:15:57 AM

Well water say WHAT

11/4/2005 12:23:41 AM

Nitrates and Sulfates say what?

11/4/2005 12:41:47 AM

Nitrates and Sulfates say WE DON'T COST SHIT (ceptyohealth)

11/4/2005 12:44:55 AM

i just got an interruption notice and it said that i owe them like 179!!!!! i paid the fuckers but that seems too damn high. i think i might get some of those piss trickle water consreving shower heads on the way hoem.

11/4/2005 4:26:27 PM

my friend just got an outrageous water bill, and they called the water company, who said that they had used 8000 gallons of water...they just moved in two and a half weeks ago.

11/4/2005 4:47:28 PM

I spoke with the water company today. They just recently implemented a new computer system. Ask how to read your meter and call back in. I read my mom's and her neighbors for her and they were way more that it should have been.

What i think happened is either the records for the past month submitted by the meter readers was lost or they couldn't get a reader out there and estimated based on your acreage.

[Edited on November 4, 2005 at 5:18 PM. Reason : !]

11/4/2005 5:18:36 PM

we got that shit too man, 360 this month for 2 months, i don't know what the fuckis going on, it might've been in this thread, but it's kinda long, if someone knows the deal, please tell him in a nice big quote at the end of this thread, we tried calling and couldn't get an answer

well oh shit

[Edited on November 4, 2005 at 5:22 PM. Reason : ^maybe i should've read that first]

11/4/2005 5:21:47 PM

i get my water free

11/5/2005 1:37:55 AM