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I have never lived anywhere where irrigation water was billed separate from household use water, so I apologize in advance if this is a dumb question. Do the outdoor taps use "irrigation water" or "household use"?
My dogs have pretty much destroyed my underground watering system in my back yard, and I know that fixing it is pointless because they will just keep digging it up. Even though they have really trashed the back I still need to do some heavy summer watering back there. I don't want to hook up a hose to a tap if I have to pay household water prices to do it. Is there a way a hose can be hooked up to an irrigation system, if the outdoor taps actually are house water?
In Florida, we had a well dug for our irrigation needs. Don't know if you can do it here, someone more knowledgable would have to answer. Initial cost was $600, saved more than that over 23 yrs.
You only get charged for irrigation water if you have a separate meter that you purchase from the Town of Mount Pleasant. It doesn't pay to do that -- the meter costs 2,000. We looked into it.
You can use your outdoor taps without any extra charges. We have an irrigation system.....soakers, sprinklers but we get charged the same for that as the water I use in the house.
Roxanne, if you have two separate line items than you have two separate meters which means that your irrigation system is on a different meter than you household water so if you use an outside tap from your house you will most likely be billed at the rate of your household usage....
Moneill, the reason for the separate billing for irrigation and household use is that your sewer portion of your bill is estimated off of you incoming water charges following the idea of what comes into your house via a pipe must also go out the same way, this doesn't not apply to irrigation and irrigation should be charged at a lower rate..
I already have a separate meter, and get two separate bills for my water usage. I just wanted to know which system the taps attached to the house are billed to. Looks like Tom answered that question.
So, the meat of my question I guess is is there a way to create some sort of tap that I can attach a hose to from my irrigation line? Do you think a plumber would do that, or a landscaper?
A follow up question:
If you have to have a well attached to a meter does that mean the city charges you for that water use too? If so, is it at least a lower rate than the city irrigation water? We considered a well but we decided that's just one more treasure for the dogs to unearth. :/
Why on earth would you have a well attached to your meter?
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