[villagetinker]

I had a very large bill (37,000 gallons!), and had a very different experience with the water company. First the meter reader happened to be taking the meter reading while I was out front and mentioned that I had used a lot of irrigation water. So I manually ran each zone and checked every spray head, found one not working correctly. Called CSU, and asked if they could double check the reading, to my surprise they already had done that and over a 3 day period I had already used 3500 gallons. I then contacted my lawn company and had them do a complete system check. Here is what they found:
1. There was a leaking sprinkler (small leak) and below grade, hard to find
2. Two other sprinklers were out of adjustment.
3. Then the kicker, my Hunter controller was running 3 addition programs ALL ON THE A program, I was watering 12 times per week!
The system was completely erased, and reprogrammed, and bills have returned to normal. I have no idea how the orginial program was duplicated twice. I have now arranged for a yearly system check.