On 3/25/2021 12:18 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2021-03-25 11:40 a.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
>> That sounds awfully high. I pay a basic charge but water is billed at
>> $2.28 per thousand gallons. The meter reads in increments of 100
>> gallons. So I pay .0028 cents per gallon. Rate goes up slightly at
>> 6000 gallons.
>>
>> Sewer is based on water. Twice a week trash collection is $14.33 a
>> month.
>>
>> I abhor waste but use what I need since it is reasonably priced.
>> Typical monthly bill is $65 or so.
>
> Cheap. My well water is free other than the cost of electricity to pump
> and pressurize it. In the summer the well runs low and I usually have to
> get a few loads of water trucked in, and that is now up to $85 for a
> 2500 gallon load.

My father has a Cisterine that sometimes runs out of water and needs to
be pumped in. No one will drink it, and we wince when cooking or
brushing teeth with it. It isn't cheap if it runs dry to pump water in.
Hopefully your well is better quality water than that.