Tapping onto water supply

[Flatheadyoungin]

man, i thought $1000 was crazy..........i really can't believe some of the prices mentioned here......

i sure hope they quoted me the price correctly......

$546.60 for a 3/4" service. Didn't realize what a bargain I got.

 

[mjarrels]

I think I payed about $1300.00 nine years ago... but the fee has increased since then... Sewer (I didn't hookup) is really expensive!

mark

 

[dmccarty]

In one section of my county they are pushng county water. The county needs 10 households per mile of road. Right now you can sign up get access to county water for $500. After 9/10/2008 the fee will be $4,500.

The qoute that irritates me is "The big risk is that down the road, you may need public water and it wont be there. Your options in the future are very limited."

What gets me is that the county is pushing water lines in certain areas. Yet the commissioners are VERY anti growth. The last election kicked out the some growth is ok commissioners. But the water lines still keep spreading which does not seem to match election promises.

Thankfully we have a good well and the pipelines are in different areas. Not sure what we will do when they move our way.

Later,
Dan

 

[EddieWalker]

Dan,

You reminded of a situation a friend of mine back in California had to deal with. Crow Canyon is an area in the East Bay Area hills that sort of devides the bay from the valley. He lives on a few acres and had a well for water. A new development was built in the area and he was given told that he could get a water tap and meter for $30,000 at his house. He declined since it was so much money and is well worked just fine.

A year or so later, he was forced to pay for a water tap and meter because of some law that was passed. I left before it was all finalized, but the price had gone up and he said they were making all the existing home owners in the area pay for the line to the new development. He wasn't happy about it and the homeowners in the area had hired a lawfirm to fight it. I don't know what the final outcome was.

Eddie

 

[JRobyn]

Wow! Exactly where in middleTN are you? Gainesboro Utility District (Jackson County) charged me $610 for a 3/4 tap. Since I was running 2" line, I asked about up-sizing to a 2" tap and they wanted somewhere around $1800 so I just went with the 3/4. My pipeline contractor said that a larger tap/meter wouldn't be needed and he was right!

- Jay

 

[TNhobbyfarmer]

Wow! Exactly where in middleTN are you? Gainesboro Utility District (Jackson County) charged me $610 for a 3/4 tap. Since I was running 2" line, I asked about up-sizing to a 2" tap and they wanted somewhere around $1800 so I just went with the 3/4. My pipeline contractor said that a larger tap/meter wouldn't be needed and he was right!

- Jay

I am building about 5 miles north of Gallatin.

 

[dmccarty]

Eddie,

The county where my wife's grandmother lives ran a water line down the road. The family owns hundreds of acres of land, not sure how much, they wont tell me. But its a mile of road frontage on a major road and the land goes back to a river. It would make a real huge development. Since everyone is on wells, why would the county run water out that way.....

Anywho, my understanding is that she was forced to hook up to the water line which cost $5,000.

Later,
Dan

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I was lucky, the city had ran a line out to the airport past my house. I was able to hook up for right at $1000 for 3/4"

If it wasn't for the city water line, I'd would've had to tap into the county which is a municipal development. I think the cost is up around $3000-3500

 

[Paddy]

I did a live tap on our private system, 1". I did this last year and the parts were $500 to $600 at HD water works. A city utility will not likely allow you to mess with their main. It took a day or two to get it installed another day to repair my neighboors line I cut trenching in mine!!

Patrick T

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I know of an instance where someone did a wet tap on a 15KV power line conduit....