scary water bill

[dahdahdahdancer.livejournal.com]

My latest water bill nearly gave me a heart attack. There's no way I could have used as much cubic feet of H2O as the bill claims. I've just now written a letter to the S'ville Water Dept (as the bill says to do if one wishes to dispute it) - but I was wondering if anyone else in the LJ community has dealt with this kind of problem before. How easy was it for you to get justice (and a lower, accurate bill)? Some details - a new meter was installed a month into the 4-month billing period. I'm being waaay overcharged for the first month, under the old meter. New meter readings are fine.

Comments

[muffyjo]

FWIW, you can actually read your own gas meter to see how it compares to the estimate. It's not all that difficult. Finding the meter may be the hardest part, after that, it's pretty straightforward reading the number from left to right. Write down the number and then compare it to what you see on the bill.