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

[squirrelitude]

The bad one, which is unfortunately more likely, is that they did a final check on the old meter reading vs. the "estimated" readings they have been charging you, perhaps for years.

Another commenter said there's a 6 month limitation on that.