Jeff Raw runs a construction company in Atlanta. He bought a vacant lot with no utilities, and ordered a water meter in 2022. The meter was installed, but there was no water line to the property yet. A month later, Raw got a water bill for $8,899, indicating he used 305,184 gallons of water. After five months, the water bill totaled $29,669.43, but there was still no water line. Raw asked for an inspection, and the water department came and found no leak and still no water line. When the water line was finally installed for the new house, the monthly bill sank to $13.12 for a month. But Raw was expected to pay the entire bill of almost $30,000 for around a million gallons of water.
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Board Chair Clifford Ice said there are only three options: use of water, loss of water, or theft of water.
I can think of other options: error in installing the meter, error in the billing department, or embezzlement. I’m sure there are other possibilities. There was no evidence of flowing water found, and no one noticed anything that could be attributed to theft. Raw appealed to a higher-up at the Department of Watershed Management, and received an admission that the bill was due to a leak caused by the utility. But then the utility appealed that ruling, and suddenly Raw is on the hook for the bill again anyway! Read how all this came about in a news report. -via Fark
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