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On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:56:57 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:11:01 -0400, KC wrote:

On 9/30/2014 3:00 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 11:12:37 -0500, Califbill
wrote:

Way back in 1992 I watered my lawn for one quarter, water billing
period. When I got the bill I was shocked at the cost and decided that I
would not water my lawn ever again. In the winter the grass turns brown,
in the spring it tuns green, in the summer it turns brown and in the
fall it tuns green again.

Water is not that bad priced. Where we live we get water and sewage charge
on the bill. About $60 I think. Former abode, we got the sewage charge as
an annual charge on our tax bill. Let us deduct it from taxes.

That may be part of the problem out there. Water is pretty expensive
here and they don't even have that much of a shortage. I think it is
something like $13 a 1000 gallons with the sewer (the sewer is as much
as the water and based on water use)

We still have a well, but they made us all put in sewer a while back,
Since we have a well, we pay about 350 /year in sewage tax.

I am still on well and septic but I am sure they will make us hook up
some day. The city system is at the end of the street. I wouldn't mind
the sewer but I am not thrilled with the city water. It is expensive
and basically the same water I am getting now. The wells they use are
in the same aquifer about a mile and a half away.
I think they will let me keep an "irrigation" well and I might do it
even though I do not really irrigate much.
I do have the plumbing separated anyway. It would be an easy hookup
for them..

When we lived in Tampa, there were lots of folks with 'irrigation'
wells and city water. That St Augustine grass did well on ground
water.