Around $20 for two months. Septic, so no sewer bill. The county does recycling.
For garbage I’d have to pay +/- $25/month for the right to buy tags to put on my trash bags and have them taken away, to to hell with them, I just take my trash to the dump for $10/ton.
In the UK sewerage charges are based on a percentage of the metered water consumed. I think it’s currently about 90%. If you can prove that run-off rainwater drains into your own land and not into the water company’s sewers then you can claim some of that back.
Sewage metering is generally based on water usage. Except for outdoor watering, the amount of water you use will correlate pretty well with the amount of sewage you produce. In my city, you can get a separate water meter for lawn irrigation that costs a little bit more per gallon of water but does not incur a sewage fee.
Well, all of your inside fixtures will balance out; that is, fresh water in = gray water out. It is far less expensive to install a separate meter for those outside fixtures which don’t use the sanitary sewer line - such as your hose bibb - than it does to install a sanitary sewer metering box.
Example: Your house uses 1000 gallons of water and your outside spigot uses 500 gallons. You are charged for 1500 gallons of fresh water but only 1000 gallons of gray water.
Sampiro, I should have mentioned that my $25 includes garbage pickup also.
Wow, you guys have it pretty good. Our family of four pays about $100 per month, and this includes city water, sewer, weekly garbage service and recycling, and helps with extras like twice yearly special pickup of couches and paint cans. No real landscape watering, no dishwasher, but four showers a day, four loads of clothes, etc.
How much extra yearly does a septic/well cost? Say, repairs, maintanence, well goes dry emergency, things like that?
Wow, y’all have some cheap water!
We are a family of four in California (where everything is expensive!): in the summer, about $125/month. In the winter, about $50/month. That’s water and sewer.
Garbage is about $22/month.
For water alone, no sewer or garbage collection, I pay $14.80 per month. That’s the minimum amount for water service. I’m one person, no dishwasher, shower daily, 1-2 loads of laundry per week. I also have a well, and I use that to water the horses and any other outside watering that needs to be done. The well water is sulphurous, but healthy and the animals like it.
StG
My water is $22.13 a month. They took the yearly averages in the community for # of people per place, and averaged it for everybody.
About $15-20 per quarter. We’re on a well that provides for the entire neighborhood so we pay a fee for the maintenance of that. We have our own septic tank so no sewer bills and our trash pick-up is included in the water bill.
My entire “homeowners agreement” consists of a short paragraph stating that if I refuse to pay my water bill, they have the right to turn off my water.
I understand, meter the incoming and you have your outgoing usage. Still we are on individual private wells, I wonder if there is such thing, a community with metered private wells for the purpose of monitoring sewage usage? I can hear the outcry now, “you can’t make me pay for my water that is coming out of my well.” :rolleyes:
Water/sewer is usually either $29 or $36 per month, although two months ago it jumped up to $47. The amount I pay includes a water/sewer serve charge of just under $22, and usage charge for each 1000 gallons of water I use. The rate of the usage charge is seasonal; higher in May-September to encourage conservation during peak demand times.
Here in a small town in the high desert of Norther Nevada we had to replace all and landscaping with xeriscaping to get it below $100 per month but there is a big jump in prices at some level of consumption… When getting the price below $100 we pulled it down to $32.
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Is your water supply part of the MWRA? I’m thinking it can’t be – not with an amount that low.
Me: Metro Boston, roughly somewhere between $125-150 per quarter. My town had the dubious distinction at one point of having the highest rate in the state :eek: It still might, for all I know.
I wonder, too.
I know there is such a thing as a sewer metering station, so that municipalities whose wastewater is treated collectively at a regional facility each pay their proper share. Somehow I don’t think that would be cost effective on a small scale (per house) but is certainly doable by neighborhood.
$60 for 6 people, including sewer and garbage collection.
We don’t have city water or sewage in this town (or trash pick up or…) so water and septic are parts of the electricity bill.
It depends on how dry it is and how long/often Ivylad has run the sprinkler in what I fear is becoming a futile effort to save our bahia.
With garbage pickup (we’re on a septic tank, so no sewer) it’s about $40-50 a month. House of four, includes two teenaged children.
In a side note, my small town recently started a Good Neighbor Fund, where residents could donate a few bucks that could go toward helping someone pay their water bill who is having financial difficulty. I donated a bit last month.
Water/sewer is about $25/month, assessed every two months. Single person living a lone, with dishwasher and washer/dryer on the premises.
Well, Atlanta has one of the highest water rates in the country. My last monthly water/sewer bill was $147.
Anywhere from $34 to $88. Last month $55. That’s water and sewer.