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Originally Posted by bkcunningham1
On your water/sewer bill, you are billed for your sewer based on the amount of water you use. By metering your irrigation water separately, you are given a break. Otherwise, your sewer portion of your bill would be equal to the total amount of water you use; both the household usage and irrigation usage.
Most localities can't meter sewerage and customers are billed at the same rate for their sewer as they are for their water.
Does that make sense?
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I thought the way they did it in Tucson, AZ was pretty clever! One bill for water covered both domestic water and irrigation water. Sewer fee was based on water usage during the time of year when one used the least water for irrigation. They took Jan, Feb and March water usage, and averaged the 3 months...the sewer bill for the following 12 months was based on that uasge. If you had an exceptionally large bill one of those months, say for filling a pool, they would exempt that from the average. Your sewer portion of the bill stayed the same for an entire year. Quite smart actually.