Posted by admin on February 4, 2015
The billing was mailed on Monday, and you should receive your bill by Friday. We had a few good size leaks, and we want to remind you that the most important thing you can do is to turn your water off, at your customer valve, when you leave for any extended period of time. You are responsible for any water that goes through your meter, and Pine Cove Water District has never forgiven a water bill. We also recommend that you use the shut off valve, located in your customer box, next to the meter, instead of or in addition to any shut off you might have closer to your house. If your water is shut off at the house, and not by the meter, and a pipe breaks, it could be weeks before you ever see that water.
If you have a small leak, lets say 1 gallon per minute, for 30 days, that would be 43,200 gallons of water. That size of a leak would cost you just under $400.00……..if that leak goes undetected for 2 months, that same bill would be $1000.00. If you have a leak that’s 3 gallons per minute, the water going through the meter would be almost 130,000 gallons in one month……a bill that size will cost you about $1600.00……….and for 2 months, that same 3 gallon per minute leak would cost you over $7000.00……that is a lot of money to pay, and a lot of wasted water.
If you have not shut off your water, please call us and we will go out and shut the water off for you. The fee to do that is $15.00, but that is a lot better than having to pay for a leak, because you didn’t shut your water off.
