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Health & Fitness

Wow Tier 2 HP Water Bill Shock$$$$$$

This year, we decided to improve our landscape and green up the ole yard and planted lot's of new grass as well as 32 ea. 6 foot, 45 ea. 8 foot Arborvitaes as well as 5 ea. 9 foot fir trees.  That was a beautification improvement as well as establishing a sustainable amount of greenery that will live for many years forward.  It also required a decent monetary investment.

In the course of planting over 80 decent sized trees our watering needs rose as new trees and grass need a lot of water.

I just got the quarterly water bill and it was over $730!  It seems the City Council passed a new initiative in July to penalize water usage adding water consumption penalties not to mention our new higher Sanitary Sewer Maintenance rates.  My penalty for planting 80 sustainable trees amounted to almost $400!

Ok, I am all for conservation but where did I cross the line?  Guess I should have either not planted the trees or let them all die to stay within the constraints of the cities new water rates.

While I will pay this ridiculous bill, it would seem that there should be a distinction between water waste and new landscape or planting trees...which by the way they get very protective over and will fine you if you cut them down in a couple of years but now penalize you for planting and watering.


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