[Anhil8tor]

per the foolio weekly:



1.76 million gallons!?!?!

The annual bill of $6,219 works out to $518.25 per month. Sure, Del Rio can afford it. But he's definitely living up to his surname, which means "of the river" in Spanish.

[ntype]

"hello I use more water than an african village in one year. and oh yeah fuck you"

[Flumper Barflusterbutt]

I'll bet he has a water leak somewhere.

[Flumper Barflusterbutt]

1.76 million gallons in a year is 4,822 gallons per day. Impossible. He's either got a water leak or there's something wrong with his meter. I'd suggest shutting off everything in the house and watching the meter for an hour and see if its moving. If it is, and he's losing thousands of gallons of water and doesn't know it, then the leak must be near a sewer or storm drain that is catching it and removing it.

[StreetLight]

I agree with flump unless he has a private fire hydrant on his property that he opens up regularly for his grandkids.

[Flumper Barflusterbutt]

They say the average person uses about 70 gallons of water. Say Jack and his family are above average and use 150 gallons of water a day per person. That would be over 32 people using water in that house ever day. Flushing, showering, brushing teeth, shaving, washing clothes, etc.

Impossible. Dude has a water leak or broken meter.

[Flumper Barflusterbutt]

If you had 4 people in a house, and they each used 70 gallons of water each per day, that would be 280 gallons per day. So it would take more than 17 households to use that much water.

Impossible. Water leak.

[StreetLight]

If the guy has a mansion big enough to require an off-street private fire hydrant, opening that bitch up for 18.5 hours per year would make up the difference. (1500 gpm)


If it's a leak, even near a storm sewer, it's going to carry a good bit of soil away with it. Over time, he'll find out for sure.

[Flumper Barflusterbutt]

I can't tell you how many streets we've reconstructed that once you remove the old pavement, you find a wet spot. It never dries up. The city guys will stand around it and say "underground spring". Every time. If there were as many underground springs in the world as stupid city inspectors blame wet spots on, we'd have water wells in our backyards.

Its always a water leak. Every time.

I even had one city pay us to install an underdrain the length of a street to carry away the underground spring water. Later we found a city water main that had been leaking for the past 20 years.

It kills me.

[Blueeyedwoman]

My water bill was super high this time. When I complained the man told me to go sit and watch the meter. ><

[goldan]

My gas bill was high (water & gas are city). It's not possible that it's doubled from November to December then from December to January. I steal my water in the summer though, so I'm not gonna bitch too much.

[Bill]

I have never had a water bill.

[goldan]

I have never had a water bill.

you suck

[Flumper Barflusterbutt]

I have never had a water bill.

Hygiene is a wonderful thing.

[ntype]

I can't tell you how many streets we've reconstructed that once you remove the old pavement, you find a wet spot. It never dries up. The city guys will stand around it and say "underground spring". Every time. If there were as many underground springs in the world as stupid city inspectors blame wet spots on, we'd have water wells in our backyards.

Its always a water leak. Every time.

I even had one city pay us to install an underdrain the length of a street to carry away the underground spring water. Later we found a city water main that had been leaking for the past 20 years.

It kills me.

One of my first job was for the local water, gas and electricity company.

I did some database creation and a fancy excel stuff with graphs and other shinny presentation who was taking infos from the database (who was populated with the water requests when there was a construction planned like a new building or a pool).

Anyhow the engineers there where used to plug industrial computers (it was a 386 cpu enclosed in a metal tube with various detectors) on various fire hidrant of one area during a few days to get some local pression readings.

They explained to me that the leakages are somewhat unavoidables you just have to keep them at the bare minimum and that this tool was a way for them to detect the leakages based on the pressure differences.

anyhow.

[Flumper Barflusterbutt]

One of my first job was for the local water, gas and electricity company.

I did some database creation and a fancy excel stuff with graphs and other shinny presentation who was taking infos from the database (who was populated with the water requests when there was a construction planned like a new building or a pool).

Anyhow the engineers there where used to plug industrial computers (it was a 386 cpu enclosed in a metal tube with various detectors) on various fire hidrant of one area during a few days to get some local pression readings.

They explained to me that the leakages are somewhat unavoidables you just have to keep them at the bare minimum and that this tool was a way for them to detect the leakages based on the pressure differences.

anyhow.

Yeah, when we build a new subdivision and put in new water lines, you have to do a pressure test on the lines when you finish to make sure they don't leak. You seal them all off, close all valves, then put air pressure into the lines until you reach a certain setting. Then you leave a meter on the line you pressured up and let it sit for 24 hours. If no air leaks off, then the system passes the pressure test. Actually, you have to pass two tests in a row to pass.

[ntype]

Yeah, when we build a new subdivision and put in new water lines, you have to do a pressure test on the lines when you finish to make sure they don't leak. You seal them all off, close all valves, then put air pressure into the lines until you reach a certain setting. Then you leave a meter on the line you pressured up and let it sit for 24 hours. If no air leaks off, then the system passes the pressure test. Actually, you have to pass two tests in a row to pass.

seems that they used somewhat the same techniques even if around here we doesn't really build large blocks anymore (we should somewhat invade France to seize some lands around here), anyhow there's too that fancy thing like err air travels faster than water or the contrary and when you put the water back in the pressured system it was kinda dangerous.