Water Bill

LSainsbury · 14-10-2006, 09:47

Hi,

On our water bill we have three charges - service charge, water charge and a waste water charge.....what the hell is the waste water charge all about??!!!

Cheers

Lee

**Russ** · 14-10-2006, 09:57

Sewerage.

LSainsbury · 14-10-2006, 10:00

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Originally Posted by Russ D

Sewerage.

Want to expand on that Russ - seeing as we have a cast for that as well?

Do they charge for the amount of s**te we flush away!?

**Russ** · 14-10-2006, 10:03

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Originally Posted by lsainsbury

Want to expand on that Russ - seeing as we have a cast for that as well?

Do they charge for the amount of s**te we flush away!?

No, not the amount - I doubt we'll ever see a pay-per-poo charge. It's something to do with a standard charge for clearing waste from your pipes (which sounds a bit like a laxative really), plus maintanence for it all.

FCC · 14-10-2006, 10:09

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Originally Posted by lsainsbury

Want to expand on that Russ - seeing as we have a cast for that as well?

Do they charge for the amount of s**te we flush away!?

It's proportional to the amount of water you use (if you have a water meter) or proportional to your rates...

greencreeper · 14-10-2006, 11:02

Should your house ever flood with raw sewage <cough>, it pays for the nice chaps to come out, clean it all up, and find out how it happened.

Shaun · 14-10-2006, 12:39

If you want a discount then take the water from your roof and pipe it into water butts. You can get a rather decent size discount for that. If you can tuse it all just dump it in the garden.

**Rob** · 14-10-2006, 12:43

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Originally Posted by Shaun

If you want a discount then take the water from your roof and pipe it into water butts. You can get a rather decent size discount for that. If you can tuse it all just dump it in the garden.

Won't apply to every house. That assumes your rainwater pipes connect into a combined (foul and surface water) sewer, so it becomes waste water that has to be treated. Many houses use soakaways (pits in the garden), or may have two separate systems, one foul one surface, so that the surface stuff doesn't need treatment. Of course in a clay soil based area soakaways don't work very well

LSainsbury · 14-10-2006, 15:20

So basically it's just a charge for the removal of waste water...as said on the bill!

greencreeper · 14-10-2006, 20:46

Rob C, for an IT guy, displays an alarmingly detailed knowledge of drainage systems

Is this a hobby?

**Russ** · 14-10-2006, 21:15

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Originally Posted by greencreeper

Rob C, for an IT guy, displays an alarmingly detailed knowledge of drainage systems

Is this a hobby?

CF admins are so used to trudging through tons of crap, we're almost experts at it now

**Rob** · 14-10-2006, 21:21

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Originally Posted by greencreeper

Rob C, for an IT guy, displays an alarmingly detailed knowledge of drainage systems

Is this a hobby?

I could worry you by saying I watch dirty videos of drain systems too