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Anyone have any experience in contracting the town or a vendor to install a second water meter for irrigation in Cary? We already have an irrigation system - problem is with a single meter our water bills are off the scale half the year. Any ideas on the costs involved? Does the Town do the install work? Thanks!
Well why not skip all the buracrasy and paperwork and just get you rain barrels for irrigation, this is what i have done and now now you can play golf on my lawn
Do you mean you want to connect to the Town of Cary's reclaimed water system for irrigation? I don't think you can unless you are in their service area (and I think most homes in the service area are already connected). Here is a map of the service area: Map of Reclaimed Water System (http://www.townofcary.org/depts/pwdept/proj1reuse.htm - broken link)
Do you mean you want to connect to the Town of Cary's reclaimed water system for irrigation? I don't think you can unless you are in their service area (and I think most homes in the service area are already connected). Here is a map of the service area: Map of Reclaimed Water System (http://www.townofcary.org/depts/pwdept/proj1reuse.htm - broken link)
Do you mean you want to connect to the Town of Cary's reclaimed water system for irrigation? I don't think you can unless you are in their service area (and I think most homes in the service area are already connected). Here is a map of the service area: Map of Reclaimed Water System (http://www.townofcary.org/depts/pwdept/proj1reuse.htm - broken link)
If you get a second meter for irrigation, you don't need to pay the sewer portion of the water you use to irrigate your yard.
Anyone have any experience in contracting the town or a vendor to install a second water meter for irrigation in Cary? We already have an irrigation system - problem is with a single meter our water bills are off the scale half the year. Any ideas on the costs involved? Does the Town do the install work? Thanks!
I have to do the same thing. I looked into it I think last year and was going to get a contractor to do it. It was something like $800 min - to around $1100.. Don't forget that you probably need a permit. It's not the cost of the meter that is expensive, it is the the town of cary guidelines, and then the contractor's time, etc. So right now I just don't use it. This irrigation system was installed before the town made these rules. I'd be curious what the town would charge, but I have all ideas it's not any less expensive and probably more.
I hate to break it to you, folks, but the second meter isn't going to make the water bill any lower. We have a twelve-zone irrigation system, on a second meter, and our water bill easily hits in the upper $200 to $300 range during the hottest months (and when we can water). The bill was so high once, until I thought surely we had a leak somewhere.
Ballpark figures, the household water costs $3.00+ per so many thousand gallons, the sewer is another cost, and irrigation is well over $5.00+ for so many thousand gallons. Irrigating the lawn really sends the bill through the roof. Cary also has a tiered water plan, and if you go over what they refer to as 'allotted,' you pay even more.
Are you being penalized because all of the water is on the household meter, and you water the yard?
Just checked town of cary's website.
$534.00 = Irrigation meter impact fee
$61.00 = 5/8 inch multi-service line tap
$50.00 = Irrigation-only meter
$60.90 = Meter box
$50.00 = Plumbing permit (minimum fee)
$755.90 = Total (minimum) Also.. I don't know if this includes the Backflow preventor valve. This year the town of Cary will be testing residential homes to make sure this is in place. I think you get a warning if you don't have one, but I understand that they will give you a date that it must be completed by. I don't know if anyone else has encountered this yet. Many of the older homes don't have this valve.
Are you being penalized because all of the water is on the household meter, and you water the yard?
Basically, yes. You mentioned that sewer is another cost added on to your water usage. Well, if you have a second meter, you are NOT charged the sewer cost for the water used on the irrigation meter.
So - if you only had one meter, your water bills (during irrigation times) would have been even higher than they were!
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