Water bill concerns

Published 4:56 pm Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Thank you Jeanne Herold for speaking up on this very subject (“All wet with high water bill,” Auburn Reporter, Dec. 2).

I, too, am retired and living on a fixed income. I have lived here in the same house since 1970 and got caught in the East Hill annexation in 2008 … because most were not paying attention and did not vote.

I just received my water bill and thought I maybe had a water leak in my main line, especially since I did not water at all in October and rarely in September.

I am single. I do laundry once a week, run the dishwasher every two weeks. I conserve every chance I can.

So, I called three of my neighbors. One had not received the bill yet, one had paid the bill, not actually checking for an increase, and one said, “Yeah, it’s way higher than normal.”

So my question is, what’s up with that?. What are the meter readers really reading, and why is usage up on the invoice we have to pay?

– Lonnie Stevenson