Texas Heat!

[jinman]

I don't have a well, but I got a water bill today for $222.76.

That's just not right. Bird, I can't help but believe that's highway robbery. Does Corinth have to pay Dallas for water like so many communities? Didn't you say all the water came from wells? Many towns with wells and their own reservoirs have to pay big prices to Dallas when they need extra water. I am truly lucky to have a great well.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

That's just not right. Bird, I can't help but believe that's highway robbery. Does Corinth have to pay Dallas for water like so many communities? Didn't you say all the water came from wells? Many towns with wells and their own reservoirs have to pay big prices to Dallas when they need extra water. I am truly lucky to have a great well.

Some municipalities were going to a system where the first 8000 gallons or so was cheap and thereafter it went up substantially or even exponentially.

 

[Patriotic Stabilist]

I think some people got some good rain this evening. It showed some really red areas all around us. We got enough to wet the sidewalk.:thumbdown:

Read in the Houston Chronicle yesterday that climatolgists said Texas is not going to get any drought relief in the next 2 OR MORE YEARS! They said showers yes but no discerible rain. Then this will be a desert.

Lake Houston is at a record low for the city of Houston. They are uncertain what they will do, will draw from Lake Conroe and they said Lake Livingston was also built for water for Houston, never heard that before.

It's very bad here, I think we have lost 3 trees so far I figure we will lose a lot more.

 

[Western]

We are dry as He##, and the East Coast is fixing to get pounded!

 

[NativeSon]

Well wind picked up and could hear the thunder and nothing

Looked like rain....but not a drop. But the temp dropped about 15*.

Charlie

 

[Patriotic Stabilist]

We got a shower this morning, hey anything is welcome. The thunder woke me up and I got up to let the dog in the garage, he gets scared. You can tell its a remarkable event when you sign on the computer and tell people you got a shower.

If you follow weatherbug there is one disturbance after another coming out of the Atlantic. There are 2 or 3 after Irene, with the heat we are liable to end up with a monster hurricane this way before its over. That's about the only way we will get some rain I guess.

Ok I'm going back to bed.

 

[Bird]

That's just not right. Bird, I can't help but believe that's highway robbery. Does Corinth have to pay Dallas for water like so many communities? Didn't you say all the water came from wells? Many towns with wells and their own reservoirs have to pay big prices to Dallas when they need extra water. I am truly lucky to have a great well.

No, Jim, I don't think any of Corinth's water comes from wells. It comes from Lake Lewisville via the Upper Trinity Regional Water District. As far as I know, it's all from their Lewisville Treatment Plant. In this hot weather, I guess we take more showers, do more laundry, and I've tried to water enough to keep the grass alive, but certainly not as much as it appears to need. However, according to the bill, we used 30,529 gallons. It's hard to believe we used an average of a thousand gallons a day, which is more than 5 times as much as we used in February or March.

But I don't think we have any leaks indoors or outdoors.

 

[jinman]

We are getting a rogue shower just at this moment. It moved down from northeast to southwest and it has rained enough to connect the dots on my deck. If it continues, we could get a couple of 10ths out of this. I have my sprinklers going too. Woohoo! Free water!

DRAT! It's gone and we maybe got 1/100 th inch. It's just enough to make it steamy as it heats up. Oh well. . . . sigh!

 

[pacerron]

No, Jim, I don't think any of Corinth's water comes from wells. It comes from Lake Lewisville via the Upper Trinity Regional Water District. As far as I know, it's all from their Lewisville Treatment Plant. In this hot weather, I guess we take more showers, do more laundry, and I've tried to water enough to keep the grass alive, but certainly not as much as it appears to need. However, according to the bill, we used 30,529 gallons. It's hard to believe we used an average of a thousand gallons a day, which is more than 5 times as much as we used in February or March.

But I don't think we have any leaks indoors or outdoors.

Bird,
Is your sewerage fee bases on your water meter?
In the East most communities that have water and sewer for the community and/or surrounding communities use the water meter to figure the sewer bill. The sewer bill is usually 2X the water. So if you water grass a lot it really costs you even though you are not really putting that burden on the sewer plant.
Ron

 

[pacerron]

Bird,
Is your sewerage fee bases on your water meter?
In the East most communities that have water and sewer for the community and/or surrounding communities use the water meter to figure the sewer bill. The sewer bill is usually 2X the water. So if you water grass a lot it really costs you even though you are not really putting that burden on the sewer plant.
Ron

Bird,
It looks like your rates are similar to what I said above.
Notice there is a break for senior citizens for both water and sewer that gives you some volume in the base rate. I imagine you have to apply for it though and have the request on file. You could check the useage on your last bill to see if you are getting the discount.
http://cityofcorinth.com/DocumentView.aspx?DID=441
Ron