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Mine is around 100 a month if I don't wash vehicles or water. It includes sewer garbage and mosquito. Most towns around here are 30 or 40 a month. Our water is over chlorinated so we don't drink it. It sucks.

Same. Well, septic, burn garbage in a burn barrel.

Our water has held pretty steady, but we live in the sticks. House gas from the gas well on site. Trash is a dumpster location a few miles down the road.

We did just get fancy new dumpsters to replace the ancient rusty ones. These don't even have spraypaint graffiti yet. Will miss seeing the "Go Trump", "No Diving!", and "GOOBER GRABBER" artwork to which we'd grown so accustomed.

I pay 52.05 every month for water and sewer.
Hire our own trash service here. $300 per year, but ours is double the normal rate, my Son generates lot's of trash.

Well, turd eating tank, garbage is around $70.
Not sure, I have person for that.

Township supervisors sent out a letter wanting to know how many would like to have sewer extended out to our area. The Millionaire neighbor immediately bought a big cornfield for several hundred thou$and.😂😂😂😂


And everyone else who had functioning systems?
They knew that a municipal line meant $3-4000 tap fees,
digging up their yards, screwing around with hooking and unhooking plumbing, plus dealing with the poop tank. They politely 😏 said GFY!

Keep in mind that the NEW Revised Lead and Copper rules promulgated by the EPA, will probably cause an increase for many utilities systems.

ALL Utility systems must have an inventory of all drinking water lines (including the PRIVATE service lines to the house) that have, had, or suspected to have, any possible lead contamination (even Galvanized lines) and a plan to replace them by October of 2024.

More importantly, there are no federal funds to offset the expense of this federally mandated rule change. Compliance is mandatory. Small systems will suffer more than larger urban areas.


Frog---OUT!

Also keep in mind that Wastewater treatment plants in MO with 1 to 15 MGD flow will have to meet total Phosphorous discharge rates of 1.0 mg/L by 2033.

So if you think your sewer rates are bad now wait till these small towns have to build a 30 million dollar treatment plant to meet these rates...............

Thank the EPA & DNR for this.........

Insurance is up!

Some towns/cities with water meters don’t really read them every month. Too labor intensive. Instead, they just bill based on your average usage and read the meter a couple times a year to do a “catch-up” bill. The catch-up can be hell if you’re busting your average.

Wow

The Shît Sucker truck is $300 here. And that’s with him usually bringing his son along too.

MY wife pays the water bill, I don't think it's a lot, maybe $20-30 a month. A friend in on the WATER BOARD. I tell him whatever it is it's a bargain !! I grew up in a rural area, with our own well etc. Wells go bad, pumps fail, lines leak, power outages !! My Dad was a homebuilder, licensed plumber, electrician etc. He did not take trouble calls from the Public, but friends & neighbors, he would. I grew up HOLDING THE LIGHT !!!!

We live in town and our water, sewer and garbage is on one bill. This time of year it's around $95, show lawn season maybe up to $115.


Just looked at an old duplicate check book from January 2021 and it was $88. No complaints here!

What's a checkbook?

I don't know how people get by without one.

I went to Dollar General today to buy some reading glasses. They were 50% higher than I paid a few years ago.

I miss my old place. I had 12 acre feet of water for 30 bucks a year and on septic. When I got to this little town 10 years ago my property taxes were less per year than one month of tax and one month of utilities. The utilities were $45. Now I pay 6.25x the tax and 5x the utilities.

But my wages are up 10%.

Home Depot is your friend

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Magnife...ses-2-0-Magnification-86041-14/304519864

Hank Hill approved at $5 each, by far the toughest cheap readers I’ve found.

I order online and have ‘em delivered since most stores are usually sold out.

Spokane has always been relatively reasonable, but started climbing about 4 years ago. $150.00 a month for garbage, sewer, water for a smallish 2 bedroom 1 bath house. Now that the leftists in Spokane have elected a commie carpetbagger from Olympia as the new mayor, I expect fees will take off like a rocket.

Zero here.

It’s gone way the fuuuck up like everything else