What does your water bill run?

[uratoon]

Our water runs about 50 -75 a month, year round.
Electric about 150 -200 a month.
There is no city sewer system. We have a septic tank.
and the trash? That goes in the burning barrel in the back yard. There is no trash service available. We dread when there is a burn ban, because we get stuck with all these trash bags sometimes for up to 3 months before we can burn them.
I would love to have trash service!!

 

[Brenda in CA]

Ours for the month of January was $91.85 ($35.70 water; $31.40 sewer; $24.75 garbage). We are a family of 6 (2 adults, 4 kids ages 3 mos., 4, 9, 12). Our summer bill is usually about $130 when we have the sprinklers running for the yard and just use more water outside in general. We have the HE washer and I run a load or 2 every day, the dishwasher daily, DH and I shower daily and the kids shower every day in the warmer weather and every other day in the colder months (it's like pulling teeth to get them to take a shower).

 

[MommaPooh]

On average it is $75 a month - $12 of it is the trash service. Our water bill includes water usage, household trash pick up, recycle pick up, yard clipping pick up, and large item trash removal. We are a family of four - two aduts, a teen and a preteen. We run the dishwasher two to three times daily, three to six loads of laundry a day, and we have to "top off" the swimming pool about once a month. Three of us are home all day everyday so even the toilet is going non-stop. Baths and showers are a daily requirement, I have made the kids get out of bed at all hours of the night if they failed to take a bath or brush their teeth. Plus the animals are required to be bathed weekly. All in all I cannot complain about the amount of our water bill.
The highest bill we ever got was last year when we had to refill the pool after we got a new liner. That month the bill was $298.

 

[mickeyfan2]

Water bill? What water bill? No water bill here, we have a good old-fashioned well Actually the only plus to having a well is the fact that it's free

We have a well and love it. I never want city water again.

 

[Homer Simpson]

We're in NJ... runs between $25 and $29 a month.

 

[disneysnowflake]

We were forced to hook onto public water and sewage a few years back.

We had to pay $2500 to a company to install water lines from our home to the street, then we had to pay $1000 to the township for a tap on fee.

We pay $40 to $45 per month for water. It depends on how much we use.

Our sewage is a set rate of $30 per month.

 

[Frye7127]

Our water company is definitely a racket. Our bill for a family of 3 full time and one teen part time is $75 and includes sewage of about $1. Summer before last we were gone for ten days and came back to an $75 water bill. When I called to ask why, they stated a leak somewhere and sent someone out to check it. When that didn't amount to anything, they asked how many people were in our family and said that was normal for a family our size. Never mind the ten days we were gone and I did laundry while we were gone, so it wasn't like I stockpiled laundry to do when we got home. Same thing happened this past December...nothing changed with with the water or electric/gas...both high! I have to say about 5 - 7 years ago, our bill was $40 and we don't do anything different now that we did then.

 

[LadyTrampScamp&Angel]

Our monthly bill runs between $27-35 for a family of 4. I do lots of laundry and run the dishwasher every day. We also have 1/2 acre lot but don't need to water much outside.

 

[ameraumi]

Our water and sewer is on the same bill and it normally runs $85 a month. I am going to have the water co come out and make sure the meter is correct because it is even that amount in the summer when I am watering the lawn and plants!

 

[jessica52877]

Wow! I am surprised after reading these! I thought our water bill was high. Ours usually runs around $32, this month it was $37 and not sure why, i haven't checked yet to see if the cost went up per gallon (or however it is measured). Ours is pretty steady year round, we shower daily (2 adults) and my son takes a bath depending on what year it is probably 3-6 times a week.

I do make sure it is turned off at all times when not needed on. We have a BIG problem with no warm water in the winter so it has to run forever before it gets warm! I think if I could fix that problem that I could cut our bill atleast 1/4 in winter. Any ideas? It is mainly the bathroom that is farthest from electric heater!

 

[ElizaB39]

40 per month for water
40 per month for sewer (based on water usage)
80 per quarter for garbage pickup, private company - each household contracts with whatever garbage company they want to use.

Two adult showers each day, one teen showers every other, one 9 yo boy showers when we coerce him, every other usually. I run the diswasher about 4 times a week, I do between 5-7 loads of laundry each week. I do not have an HE washer but this is something I am looking into. OUr water bill stays steady. We do not water our lawn at all. I water some plants in the summer, but our water bill is pretty steady.

 

[stczt]

Ours is $50.00 more or less. Thats doing 2 loads in the dishwasher. average of 4 loads of laundry a day. 5 people taking 1 usually 2 showers a day. and Atleast 1 long very hot bath a day. and the sad thing is my kids are 8,9,12. I am afraid of when they become teens.

 

[kydisneyfans]

Water sewer and trash equal 45 a month here.

 

[patsal]

About $48 per quarter, but summer is usually a bit higher with the pool.

 

[plove53]

This is a funny y question. I use to live with my Grandparents (over 10 ya) and the water bill was ~$40 (one family)… My other Grandmother that lived in the same town asked my Grandfather if he could pay the bill for her…. He said OK and when he seen her bill he flipped on us. Her bill was less then $10 and she had an apartment she rented. He was sooo mad that his bill was over $40, and hers was under 10 bucks and he started to think of ways to save water money (not with Grandmothers approval though ). We heard about this for years… now that he is gone I still think how funny it was.

 

[Chicago526]

$45 or so every two months, that's just for water and sewer for two adults and one dog. Trash pickup is free (well, it comes out of our taxes, I mean we aren't billed for it).

Electric is $35 to $50 (winter) and $75-$100 (summer). Gas (heat, water heater, cloths dryer, and cooking) is $125-$150 winter and as low as $10 in the sumer. Actually they don't bill us in the summer, they let three months build up and send out a statement in August, then they start billing monthly again.

 

[tkd lisa]

Mine is way more than it should be. It runs from $80 to $100 a month (includes sewer but nothing else). That's with two teens and one adult. We run the dishwasher between 2 and 3 times a week. My big users are laundry and showers. The kids will fairly often go through a couple of outfits a day, and DD puts on clean pjs every night. If I don't keep on them, they leave the towels on the floor, which means a new towel every day for each of them. I probably average 6-9 full loads of wash every week for 3 people! And probably only one load is for my stuff!

And showers? My DS is the king of the Hollywood shower. He can spend at least 30 minutes in there! And he usually takes one in the morning and one at night.

Last summer, the kids were with their grandma or at camp for 3 weeks out of the month. I was out of town one of those weeks. That water bill? $20!!! So I'm thinking that my bill under normal usage would be around $40-50 a month.

 

[ducklite]

I get two water bills. One is the potable water in the house and to the spigots outside. That one averages about $15 a month. Then I get another for the non-potable reclaimed irrigation water that varies wildly throughout the year from as low as $10 to as high as $25. During the driest conditions my potable water bill goes up by $5 or so because I hand water the dryest parts of the lawn to supplement.

Anne

 

[gottaluvdis]

We have a well and love it. I never want city water again.

Ditto. No water bill, no sewage bill, no trash bill (we take ours to the dump). All have worked out fine for us for many years. I'm not keen to hook up to any public utility anytime soon (electric, phone, and gas company are bad enough!)

 

[vhoffman]

Wow! I am surprised after reading these! I thought our water bill was high. Ours usually runs around $32, this month it was $37 and not sure why, i haven't checked yet to see if the cost went up per gallon (or however it is measured). Ours is pretty steady year round, we shower daily (2 adults) and my son takes a bath depending on what year it is probably 3-6 times a week.

I do make sure it is turned off at all times when not needed on. We have a BIG problem with no warm water in the winter so it has to run forever before it gets warm! I think if I could fix that problem that I could cut our bill atleast 1/4 in winter. Any ideas? It is mainly the bathroom that is farthest from electric heater!

Running the cold water to draw the hot water is a problem for us, too. Here's something I just started, let's see if it reflects in next month's bill--

Have everyone take showers at the same time (I don't mean together, just one after the other!) so that way the hot water's already drawn, you don't waste gallons for each shower getting to the hot. We just suck it up and wash faces, etc., in cold water in the morning, no waiting for hot to draw. It might help!