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Water Bill Jumps From $62 To $1,400. Will Cost $180 To Have Meter Inspected
When your quarterly water bill goes up a few thousand percent after the city installs a new meter at your house, you’d think the utilities folks would want to take a look at that meter because it’s...
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Water Company Wants Me To Pay $30 To Activate Service I Already Have
A few years back, after the death of her parents, Consumerist reader Jen took over the running of the house in which she’d grown up. Since then, she’s been paying the bills without problem. But now the...
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84-Year-Old Woman Asks City How She Could Possibly Use 55K Gallons Of Water...
(Ron Dauphin) While we might never know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop (wait, did someone figure that out?) we can reasonably guess how much water a single woman uses in...
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City Says Woman Used 214,000 Gallons Of Water, All While Being Out Of Town...
The homeowner’s bill jumped from $60 to $2659.A California woman who had never paid more than $60 for her monthly water service was recently hit with a staggering $2,659 water bill, but the utility...
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City Claims 80-Year-Old Couple Used 440,000 Gallons Of Water In A Month
An 80-year-old California man concedes that it’s entirely possible that he has used 440,000 gallons of water in one month, and that he and his wife really do owe the city $11,000. It’s possible if the...
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Church Surprised To Receive $93,000 Water Bill For Month Without An Excess Of...
(Ron Dauphin) As the local news points out in one Ohio town, “there was not a vast increase in baptisms, nor an excessive increase in the amount of tea consumed in the rectory.” And yet, a church in...
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City Doesn’t Believe Man About Suspicious $800 Water Bill, Now He Owes $76,000
(The Joy of the Mundane)A New Jersey man says that when the water bill on his rental property jump from an average of $200 to $800 in a single billing cycle, the city said nothing was wrong, leaving...
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City Bills Landowner $944 For Non-Existent Water Service For Vacant Lot
This luxurious 0 BR 0 BA home in the up-and-coming Sharswood area of Philadelphia apparently has been running up some expensive water bills.There are vacant lots all over the place here in...
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Broken Meter Leads Family To Fight $12,000 Water Bill For 9 Months
(sfxeric)What happens when your local utility company is up to its ears in customer calls? You could end up fighting a hefty water bill for months on end, like one Pittsburgh family that had to battle...
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New Restaurant Hit With $300K Water Bill Before Doors Even Opened
Unless you have a blue whale hanging out in a tank in your backyard, it’s pretty difficult to use $300,000 worth of water. So imagine the surprise of two brothers whose new restaurant was slammed with...
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