The last place we lived (suburb of Minneapolis) charged for water per 1,000 gallons. Everywhere else has been cubic feet too.
The elementary school in town worked for several years to get the bird recognized at the state level. They were eventually successful.
I routinely have a red tailed hawk that sits on one of my roof peaks and hunts small animals. I try not to disturb his hunting times.
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I guess ours is in gallons, but just depends I guess on the meter. When they switched to electronic meters all heck broke loose and we got whopping bills, then they all had to be replaced and the bills became normal again. Think there is not a connection with meter companies and government?
My normal bill is about $70 and goes up to about $100 in the summer if watering. The water charge is about $9 for 4000 gallons. All the rest is for sewer and base rates for both plus storm water. And about a dollar for lead discharge. So it make reading the bill for just water a little misleading.
Of course they now need to raise the rates
About 4% to cover mandated sewage treatment improvements etc.
I regularly check and replace my toilet flappers though. One month the one in the lower level leaked and cost me an additional $80. My barber though got a bill for $400 for a leaky stool in his rental unit that didn’t had a renter. He cried and I gave him one of my flappers and told him to raise rates and shut the water off.
So bottom line about $6 per 1000 gallons for just water but $15 is you include everything else.
I’m puzzled that you don’t seem overly concerned with the salt in the car-wash water issue. Do you have some evidence that there’s no more dissolved ions in San Jose’s recycled carwash water than its fresh water supply? Or perhaps you believe that whatever the salt concentration is, washing a car with it won’t cause any add’l corrosion? Again, some actual evidence would put this issue to rest.
1 cubic foot = 7.48 US gallons
Problem solved.
So dirty salty water car wash in winter
They settle and filter the water so it’s not dirty. They also replace it periodically to control salt content. But a poorly-run carwash might wait too long, that’s true. Long tunnels washes have two systems, one for wash and one for rinse, so the rinse water will be less salty, regardless.
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Our rate; First 1,700 cu. ft. each month (per 100 cu .ft.) …………… $2.26
Next 23,300 cu. ft. each month (per 100 cu. ft.)…… $2.15
Over 25,000 cu. ft. each month (per 100 cu. ft.) …… $1.76
That according to web converter is 74800 gallons per 100 cf. at $2.26 for 100 cf.
That turns out to 2 gallons for a penny once you add in sewer rate, based on water usage except for sprinkling credit in summer where amount used above winter usage is not charged sewer fees.
We are usually $70 every 2 months for water, sewage, storm utility and household hazardous waste charge. Hazardous waste takes pretty much anything for free except coolant, motor oil and electronics, but we have other free dropoff sites for that stuff.
Isn’t it 750 gallons equals 100 cubic feet?
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Per 100 cubic feet = 748 gallons. San Jose uses CCF, when I lived in Pasadena it was HCF. I’ve never seen a bill in gallons. 0.65¢ seems cheap to me, compared to all other options. Farmers measure by the acre-foot.
All I’ve seen do. It helps to get a sense of how much water is flowing, when you suspect a leak. The CCF/HCF dial will take a long time to move. And they’re all just hooked to a gearing system, a bit like a clock: one thing is moving; the different hands are geared to it differently.
'Cause the American taxpayer is paying for most of the cost. You pull your water directly out of the huge lake you’re on. The federal government pays for George’s water. All that fighting over the water in the Colorado River - I say the government should abrogate the law, let the users figure it out themselves, stop billing everybody. I live in New Mexico, get this subsidized water, pay less than people who pay for it all themselves.
I read a monumental report on toilet flappers put out by California’s MWD. Don’t buy the cheap rubber ones. Buy the refractory plastic. You’ll save in the long run.
? Is this paying the price of replacing lead pipes?
Where, if you don’t mind me asking.
748
Albuquerque bases its sewage rates on winter water use, to account for evaporation of water used in watering lawns, etc., in the summer.
My bill says gallons. $5.50 per 1000 or 55 cents per 100 or .oo55 per gallon if I did the math right.
One thing though, if you have a sprinkler system for your lawn, you can have a separate meter installed so you only pay the water charge and not the sewer charge with it.
Internet fail, you are correct.
We have free replacement of lead services to the shut off valve. Mine is copper from the shut off valve in the parkway. Worst problem is replaced lead services use granular backfill and they are freezing up on the winter. We had our water tested. 0.18 ppb for lead. Not worth the trouble. Ourwaterutility adds something to prevent lead leaching into the water. Course the water main that serves us has lead pounded into cast iron joints to seal the pipe.
No, it’s 748 gallons per 100 cubic feet.
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Fairfax County and I believe most of northern Virginia do.
Mine also, in NJ
Funded by the lead discharge fee.
? I don’t know what this is.
Orthophosphate. The problem in Flint was the ‘reformed’ water utility stopped. They saved $150/month for the whole city of 100,000. It was an inconceivable mistake.
I’ve seen poured lead joints, but not pounded.
Funded by the water utility, along with state and federal grants.
Granular backfill are coarse-grained soil where the grains are larger than 0.075 mm (or 75 µm). These type of soil grains can be seen with the naked eye and feels gritty when rub between our fingers. More prone to freezing water services.
I’ve seen poured lead joints, but not pounded.
They pounded lead into the joints on cast iron pipe back in the early 1900s. Worked at a water utility many years, @VOLVO-V70 another tidbit.
a) not free, b) do you know that the ‘lead discharge’ fee isn’t a source of funds? Do you live in @bing’s town?
Oh, it’s what they replaced soil with when they replaced the pipes, and it doesn’t insulate as well. I didn’t understand.
No charge to homeowner, for water main to curb box. Owners side cannot be lead to have it happen.