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Houston baws, how much is your water bill?

Posted on 3/31/24 at 8:25 am
Posted by thadcastle
Member since Dec 2019
2615 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 8:25 am
I haven’t really started my sprinklers yet and I’m at $275. We are getting screwed. They were completely inept in maintaining the whole entire water and sewer system and now they are just screwing us

ETA: 12,000 gallons just shy of $275
This post was edited on 3/31/24 at 10:05 am
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
65617 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 8:28 am to
Tres cincuenta
Posted by Bama and Beer
Baldwin Co, AL
Member since Oct 2010
80888 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 8:28 am to
You have a leak or 48 daughters
Posted by thadcastle
Member since Dec 2019
2615 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 8:28 am to
No leak just the cost of using water in Houston
Posted by Blah Blah Blah Dude
My 20 is in the 225
Member since Mar 2009
652 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 8:29 am to
Mine is $89 for last month, but the sprinklers were just cut on last week.

Serious question, do you have a water leak?
Posted by Achilles Hill
Member since Mar 2024
233 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 8:31 am to
Have you considered installing a water cistern to catch rain water?
Posted by ThatMakesSense
Fort Lauderdale
Member since Aug 2015
14792 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 8:33 am to
If you were paying 4$/1000 gallons…a 275$ water bill would mean almost 70k gallons of water per month.

What the frick are you doing?
Posted by thadcastle
Member since Dec 2019
2615 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 8:41 am to
I’ll have to look at my bill later but I’m pretty sure that was for 15,000 gallons.
Posted by pbro62
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2016
11314 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 8:57 am to
Pretty sure you are clueless
Posted by Allthatfades
Mississippi
Member since Aug 2014
6696 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 9:00 am to
If your water bill is $275, you have a leak somewhere
Posted by dallastiger55
Jennings, LA
Member since Jan 2010
27697 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 9:04 am to
Do you have a pool? If so do you have an automatic water filler?

That’s common to have a pool leak and your automatic filler is running all the time.

Either way something is off
Posted by CrappyPants
Member since Apr 2021
697 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 9:07 am to
Houston's water department is completely inept. There is a reporter at channel 2 that is good at revealing the bullshite residents have to deal with. The new mayor is supposed to fix it but I have a feeling he's just another politician that blows smoke and won't do shite
Posted by canyon
Member since Dec 2003
18347 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 9:07 am to
Yeah that’s a leak somewhere. Or the meter reader can’t read.
Posted by StreamsOfWhiskey
The Woodlands, TX
Member since Jun 2013
580 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 9:11 am to
During the summer we pay consistently over $270. We don’t have a leak, but in our neighborhood water is very expensive. We’re in Montgomery County.
Posted by LSUtoBOOT
Member since Aug 2012
12403 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 9:19 am to
Go read the meter yourself, the water department is one small step ahead of incompetence. They sent me one for $650 many years ago and even after sending them a picture of the meter gauge that was way below the stated reading, they still said I had a leak. Had to send an email to Ted Poe and the mayor to get those morons to revise the bill. Like I said, one small step ahead of incompetence.
Posted by billjamin
Houston
Member since Jun 2019
12480 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 9:29 am to
About $200 right now. It’ll be $500+ this summer if I try to keep my yard alive.
Posted by htownjeep
Republic of Texas
Member since Jun 2005
7612 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 9:40 am to
$42 last month. I had a leak last year and it briefly got up around $100.
Posted by CitizenK
BR
Member since Aug 2019
9420 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 9:42 am to
Less than New Orleans for certain. Best move my wife ever made was selling a house in NOLA she inherited just because of the water bill.
Posted by tigburls
Member since Feb 2010
543 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 9:49 am to
quote:

What the frick are you doing?


A lot of people weighing in who obviously have no familiarity with Houston water/wastewater bills.

Water bill calculator Harris County

10K gallons get you a $218 bill.
Posted by Misnomer
Member since Apr 2020
3445 posts
Posted on 3/31/24 at 9:51 am to
quote:

Houston's water department is completely inept.


I visited Houston recently for the museum district and was lucky enough to find out about the historic Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern tour. It's a huge empty underground reservoir. The guide told us some gross stories from Houston's drinking water history, such as how in the early 1900's government corruption and incompetence led to people getting straight bayou water for drinking and eels used to clog up the plumbing.



Anyway, it was a pretty cool tour. If you're lucky, you'll get the tour guide that concludes with singing beautifully accompanied by the 17 second echo.

This post was edited on 3/31/24 at 2:43 pm
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