Water Dept is dumb

People just do not understand simple math.

Billing period: 2/1/11 - 4/30/11
Readings done: 1/21/11 & 5/10/11

Reading shows 9,000gal use, allotted 8000 per quarter.

Readings are 21 days in excess of my 3months.

If given 8000gal per qtr, results in 2670 gal per month/avg. 21 days at that rate will be 1800 gals allotted, bring my total allowed water to 9800 during the time of readings. I should not be charged for exceeding 8000 gals in my 3 months when the readings were done nearly 4 months apart.

Sure next qtr it will show under 8, but I will not get my "excess usage" money back.

This lady did not seem to understand that.

Welcome to the wonderful world of municipal mathematics.

After 3 calls, and talking to the supervisor, I finally got a call back saying I wont be charged for excess usage. It's only $4.50, but the principle of this is what bothered me.

They rely on people not investigating it themselves like you did. Most people will just say, "Oh crap, guess I gotta pay the overage."

Now count how often municipalities do this to people and you can find a pretty decent amount of money that they can siphon. Most people don't fight stupid charges like this.

Jeez if an extra $4.50 gets you worked up, imagine being told you didn't pay your cellphone bill after paying it twice for the same month...

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Originally Posted by AgentOblivious

Jeez if an extra $4.50 gets you worked up, imagine being told you didn't pay your cellphone bill after paying it twice for the same month...

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Like I said, it wasn't the $4.50, initially I was wound up because I thought I had paid for the year in advance, and thought they were trying to double charge me, which is why i called. I made a mistake. Then since I was on the phone, I was annoyed with that and fought it.

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Originally Posted by AgentOblivious

Jeez if an extra $4.50 gets you worked up, imagine being told you didn't pay your cellphone bill after paying it twice for the same month...

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why do i get the feeling that you don't stand up for anything, not even yourself?

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Originally Posted by inperfectdarkness

why do i get the feeling that you don't stand up for anything, not even yourself?

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What, so now I'm supposed to know why you feel what you do too? Lol.

I got it fixed...they had issues with their online billing, so I just had the extra credited to my account so that I didn't have to pay the following month...it was just annoying.

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Originally Posted by AgentOblivious

What, so now I'm supposed to know why you feel what you do too? Lol.

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your posts demonstrate that you have nothing to offer than quasi-intellectual jargon, slanted interpretations of political events, and other assorted hogwash. it's patently obvious to me that the only thing you feel passionate about is being critical of someTHING...regardless of what that thing is.

you don't need to know why i feel the way i do. all you need to know is that i'm sitting here speaking my mind, freely, by virtue of those who came before me and died to give me that right. i will be faithful to that heritage.

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Originally Posted by inperfectdarkness

your posts demonstrate that you have nothing to offer than quasi-intellectual jargon, slanted interpretations of political events, and other assorted hogwash. it's patently obvious to me that the only thing you feel passionate about is being critical of someTHING...regardless of what that thing is.

you don't need to know why i feel the way i do. all you need to know is that i'm sitting here speaking my mind, freely, by virtue of those who came before me and died to give me that right. i will be faithful to that heritage.

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And still...nothing to do with the water dept. or billing issues...

I'm the same way as the OP, I had a problem with a water bill when my girlfriend and I moved and had the water switched over to our new house (along with having the gas turned on) and then two months later I get a bill from the OLD house that different people were already living in... They said I was responsible for the water bill! I told them there's no way in hell I'm paying for someone else's water when they've been living there since about a week after we had moved out (not to mention I KNOW I told them to turn the water off in the other house... they clearly didn't do it)

That was a nice little two week excursion into the world of idiots that run this city's municipalities... I finally got them to understand what I was trying to say, though the people living in the other house denied living there that month (what assholes huh!) I wouldn't doubt the landlord told them to deny considering he didn't particularly like me after he tried to cheat me out of almost ALL of our deposit when we moved (when the house was in BETTER shape after we moved out of it because he wouldn't fix a god damn thing so I had to do it...)