What do you pay per gallons for water-sewer combined?

[Anonymous]

MULTIPLE STORE OWNERS SEE BOTTOM

How much do you pay for water (that includes water in and sewer out). Include facilities charges, meter charges, etc.... Total cost for water.


I'll be we have some wide swings here as some are on wells and septic systems. If you fall into that category, please calculate any maintenance or other costs you have with these systems ang put it on a per gallon basis.


MULTIPLE STORES:
Again, if you have multiple stores, enter the data from the first store and PM me with the details for the other and I will manually enter it.

[pete f]

1 store 7 cent
1 store 8 cent
1 store 9 cent

I put in 8 cents in the poll

It varies some becuse I am billed an extra charge if in any month I go over my average monthly gallon usage, figured by the year. Of course I am busy in the winter so I pay an up charge all winter long. What a racket!
Our water costs are supposed to double in the next 5 years.

[pete f]

who has water costs of only 3 or 4 cents a gallon? I get charged that much alone on the sewer!

[Andy]

I am charged $0.034 per gallon combined water and sewage.

[Anonymous]

Andy, are you sure you did not slip a decimal? That just cannot be right. If it is really 3.4 cents per gallon than your water/sewer cost to do a triple load is $2.38 - that cannot be right. Can it???

[Lar Hylobates]

Some of you must be smokin'.

Water and sewer $.0024 as in 4 gallons for a cent.

[buddy]

I have a Well and I haven't spent any money in maintaining it. Yes it does cost some electricity to run the submersible pump but it is negligible compared to total electirc bill for the MAT including central AC/Heating, Washers and Dryers.

So I vote 0.0/Gallon.

[pete f]

I had my decimal wrong, I am just under a penny a gallon. So try .003-.004 for sewer alone.

Now I wish they had not drained all the swamps here.

Were does LA get thier cheap water??

(numbers adjusted in poll)

[Andy]

yeah, Kirby you are right it is $0.0034 per gallon. Pretty cheap.

[Rondo]

Just wondering if anybody is get the sur-charges on you water bill for extra security because of terroism. It's starting to show up around my area.

[fluffy]

I'm a little surprised by the numbers on the poll...looks like 1/2 cent a gallon is the average and that's what I pay out here in the land of the 50 cent topload wash competition. I was thinking our water/sewer costs were much less than you all, but from this poll it doesn't seem so.

My latest gas bill has the cost per therm at 90 cents (with taxes and service charges included).

[Gary C]

.0068 cents per gal. When you look at it that way it doesn't look to bad.

Gary

[pete f]

fluffy,, my water/sewer is about 1 cent per gallon, my tops 1.75... but I don't have the volume you have in CA.
In the end it all works out..

this poll started over a year ago. intresting.

[DAVID BLANTON]

to much. water bill 507.70 sewage 1120.00

[Jim]

Man, I really consider myself lucky...with all taxes and charges included I am only paying .002 per gallon and no sewer charges.

[MSKLAUNDRY.]

I voted for all the NYC owners. $3.96 per 748 gallons which works out to be about .0053 cents per gallon. This includes sewer.

[Quartermaster]

For calendar year 2003:
Water was .0042 per gallon.
Sewer was .0214 per gallon.

Total of 2.56 cents per gallon, decimals are correct.

[laundryboy]

Here is a link for doing conversions. I always forget this stuff!!!

http://www.easysurf.cc/cnver6.htm#cfg4

[Anonymous]

Too many categories.
The poll should have maximum 6-7 categories like:
a) free or under .001
b) .001 - .005
c) .006 - .010
d) .011 - .015
d) .015 - .020
e) over .20
This way you can see better were the average is. If categories are correct it should look like a bell. Gauss Bell.
here is another site for conversions:
www.onlineconversion.com

[Anonymous]

The categories are correct and there is no reason that it should look like a bell. That only applies to certain types of distributions and generally only things that are controlled by nature, not man-made.

Water rates vary considerably from free to very high, with many points in the middle. It is always better to collect data with the most possible accuracy and then later determine if you want to collapse categories. The problem with most of the polls (here and other places) is that not enough though goes into them upfront and thus the categories are faulty and don't collect the needed data. If you as a user want to collapse categories the raw data is there for you to do whatever you want with. If only broad ranges were used then the entire point of the experiment could have been missed - so the categories are correct based on what the measurer wanted to learn.

Please check your statistic books about bell shaped distributions as there are many other types of distributions and one would not expect water rates to follow a bell curve. The only reason I passed 2nd year physical chemistry (on the first try) was that the final exam produced a bimodal distribution of grades rather than a bell shaped distribution).

[Anonymous]

If I have .0055 should I answer .005 or .006?
I still think there are too many categories for this particular poll.
If the panel was big enough (like at least 600 or something) then you could use such detalied poll.
for 50 resp. I think even 6 categories are too much.
You are right. Not allways shoud be a bell but in this particular case I think it should be.

[MichaelCa]

Three cheers for Kirby's vigorous defense of his poll :)

actually, i agree with Kirby that there is more to learn from this broader segmentation.
However, i can see that some here DONT understand their own water rates, and therefore may skew this poll incorrectly with incorrect data.
Perhaps having it expressed as "cents per gallon" may be easier on some of the decimally-challenged.

[Anonymous]

$.01/gallon, including sewer. But it's some of the best water (and sewerage) in the country.

[E&R]

Is this how you calculated yours cost for water/sewer?


If 239 HCF (Hundred Cu Ft. ) of water was used this period and water charge is $386.78 and Sewer charge is $505.16
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cost of water per gallon = $386.78 / (239 HCF * 748 gallons/HCF)
= $386.78/ 178,772 gallons
= .002164

cost of sewer per gallon = $505.16 / (239 * 748)
= $505.16 / 178,772 gallons
= .002826

cost of water/sewer per gallons = .002164 + .002826
=.00499

[Buddy_Amoroso]

It looks like I am paying .006 for water and sewer.

buddy amoroso
baton rouge, la

[Maywood2]

Pennsylvania --
water: $2.10 per CCF ($0.0028 per gallon)
sewer: $2.23 per CCF ($0.00298)

Total = $4.33 per CCF, or $0.0057888 per gallon

Doesn't count the base rate charges, meter, etc.

[amartlock]

Combined $0.0051 per gallon in O'side California.