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Old 05-30-2012, 10:02 AM
 
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How do I reduce my wastewater rates immediately?
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Old 05-30-2012, 10:09 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Not sure you can, unless they are based on some error - a leaky main during the 'baseline' season, etc. The rates are based on a baseline flow established during the non-watering season, not on actual current wastewater flow.
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Old 05-30-2012, 11:06 AM
 
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You will have to wait until November (?) when they start measuring your water use so they can derive your waste water use for the rest of the year from that. I think it is a totally whacky system (why not just charge straight fees for what the sewer system takes to maintain, like everywhere else I've ever been) but that is how it is here. When we were renting, we had to pay waste water according to what the people who lived there before had metered. But unless, as said before, you think there is actually a mistake, you just have to live with what you are being changed, then work to minimize water use during the winter so that next year's waste water rate will be lower.
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