West Deptford: High Water Bills

[Murphy4570 15]

Yeah, back in the day when I was young and cars had carbs and points and lead in gas, people actually had to come into your house before all this wireless emf pollution.

 

My house has the old mechanical meter. I take the guy from the township down into my basement every now and then so he can read it.

 

I suppose they have just been installing those fancy new meters in new housing? Mine was built in 1960, probably original water meter.

[Urban Grunt 44]

Makes me happy I pump my own water

[Teky0101 6]

My house has the old mechanical meter. I take the guy from the township down into my basement every now and then so he can read it.

 

I suppose they have just been installing those fancy new meters in new housing? Mine was built in 1960, probably original water meter.

 

Actually our house was built in the 70's and they installed a new water meter last year. The problem is that they did not have the correct readers since they went with several types and they ended up estimateding our bills instead of getting an actual figure. So the then result was really high bills! It appears to be going back to normal for now unless they are estimating us again.

[djg0770 481]

My house has the old mechanical meter. I take the guy from the township down into my basement every now and then so he can read it.

 

I suppose they have just been installing those fancy new meters in new housing? Mine was built in 1960, probably original water meter.

 

My folks still have a mechanical meter. Frankly, at the age the meter is, the town should be replacing it and should be installing remote readers.

 

Here's a study about when mechanical meters should be replaced. http://www.wwdmag.com/meters/determining-economical-optimum-life-residential-water-meters

You'll note that they do not include in their analysis the reduction in labor force required to read a new remote read meter over the current manual process.

[Teky0101 6]

Thank you everyone for your responces to my question. Apparently it appears that the water in West Deptford has gone up over the years for alot of people. I hope these next bills will be normal.

[hd2000fxdl 422]

Check you past water bills and see if there is a big change in usage also..

[Lalo 13]

Do this simple test to see if there is a leak and if it is on your side. Go throghout your house and make sure that all the faucets are closed, toilets have stopped refilling, refrigerator ice maker is not cycling, etc. Once you're sure everything that uses water is in fact off, go out to your water meter and see if it is still seeing water being used at the moment. if you do, then there is a leak somewhere. I had to do this once and it worked for the way my house is setup. I had my wife turn the faucet on as I was looking at the meter and I was able to see the the meter go up. When she shut the water off, the meter stopped.

[Arbelest 29]

To my fellow West Deptford Residents if you check your mail today you will probably see why our water bills are so high. It seems some employees have been misreading their own water meters.

[Teky0101 6]

Thank you for pointing this out! What is the letter you received?

[greatgunstatenj 32]

I have a couple of these as they were left by the previous owner of my home. http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=202403935&storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&ci_sku=202403935&ci_kw=%7bkeyword%7d&kwd=%7bkeyword%7d&cm_mmc=shopping-_-googleads-_-pla-_-202403935&ci_gpa=pla#.UGtTrN1lSRh

 

If my bill was as high as some of you guys I think I might have a bunch more.

[Ron 0]

To my fellow West Deptford Residents if you check your mail today you will probably see why our water bills are so high. It seems some employees have been misreading their own water meters.

 

Letter you say? I'll have to check!!!

[Arbelest 29]

PM your email address I'll scan them and send them to you if you don’t. Apparently the AG is now handling this case and investigating.

[Arbelest 29]

I cant scan the first page of the letter because its an unormal size paper, but its two articles one from the gloucester county times and one from WestDeptfordPatch.

 

http://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/index.ssf/2012/09/mayor_chintall_attorney_genera.html

 

http://westdeptford.patch.com/articles/audit-investigation-moves-to-state-attorney-general-s-office

 

The letter portion is from Jeff Hansen who's running for Township Committee, if you want that portion let me know and I can scan that to you.

[mipafox 438]

I banged a lot of young ladies during the mid-80s in that area, and there were rumors that followed. If you were born during that time, and have uncertainty, PM me.

[BigHayden 77]

I banged a lot of young ladies during the mid-80s in that area, and there were rumors that followed. If you were born during that time, and have uncertainty, PM me.

 

Wow, this thread wandered somewhere...

[JayF281 0]

Damn, more folks from my town than I thought on here.

 

West Deptford is a nice little town, but way too expensive.

 

Funny thing is that most people do not realize is that West Deptford has consistently lower property taxes than the rest of the county..... Prolly cause more freeholders live in that township....just my theory.

[Teky0101 6]

Was anyone else's water read teice this month? They came to our door twice and read the meter within two weeks. We got one bill then a difference bill for over $600 dollars! What the heck!!! We have no sprinklers or pool!

[BigHayden 77]

Funny thing is that most people do not realize is that West Deptford has consistently lower property taxes than the rest of the county..... Prolly cause more freeholders live in that township....just my theory.

 

Know what else West Deptford has more of than any other township/city in the county (and the state, for that matter)? Debt. Over $140,000,000. And the population is only 18,000.

 

F'ing Democrats...