Something was definitely out of whack this month’s bill. The bill was from the period 6-19-12 to 8-17-12 (60 days).
The bill was $350.61. Normally I wouldn’t be alarmed because our 2 month cycle before that was just over $300.
For frame of reference we have 2 young kids, and we have a 5 bedroom house. We all take two showers/baths a day typically. 4,200 sq. ft house and 9,000 sq. foot lawn. We do have sprinklers both in the front of the house where we have native plants and even some grass and it does stay green even in August. In the back yard we have plants as well as green grass that stays green as well. (We live in Santaluz).
Now the problem is that we were out of the country on vacation traveling and NOT home from the end of May until August 10!
There is no way it can be correct. I just called SD Water and Wastewater services today to ask about this or see if they misread the meter. I asked if someone can come out and see it and she told me no that if I wanted I could go out and read the meter myself.
She said it’s in front of the house. I just went out to see it but the number on the meter doesn’t seem to correspond at all with the number on the bill.
But no way it can be correct. Our gardener did say that he increased the time by 2 minutes for each station but no way that would make up for the difference.
We do a lot of laundry, dishwasher, showers/baths. So it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
It said about $57 for the base fee and Water used was $185.
Sewer base fee was $30 and Sewer service charge was $76.
I wouldn’t be bothered if not for the fact that no one was home at all for almost the entire time!
Again, my biggest complaint is no one was home except for one week of that time. And I don’t exactly live in the sort of neighborhood where my neighbor would be stealing my water while we were in Europe. LOL.
But that could be the only explanation right? If the meter matches up? That my neighbor filled up his pool with my water?? Just seems odd.
