On Friday, March 26, 2021 at 5:45:32 PM UTC-4, Michael Trew wrote:
> 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.

And you have to ship in water from Brooklyn just to make pizza.