they got you coming and going.

Who farted, y'all?

Water they thinking? In this day of the sue age, lawyers will be all over this.

The thread will be flush with puns.

Ok, I get the joke. But many cities have a "Sewerage and Water Board." Mine does.

I think I saw this in a porn movie once.

I have been to LA and had their municipal water. I can tell you they merged their water and sewage long ago.

/cool story brah

From the "Are you sure this is a good idea?" department: Water and Sewer to be merged. Bonus: gas company may handle merger


Effects expected to be explosive and far-reaching.

Two utilities, one cup?

skinink: Two utilities, one cup pipe?

FTFY?

Don't most cities already have this?

Isn't Citizens Energy Joe Kennedy's Hugo Chavez-fellating company?

You tell me how that got in there!

Piss on it, blow it out your ass!

Sounds like another Soapy Smith scheme to me...

1) Put the lime in the coconut
2) Drink 'em bowl up...

That is really surprising that they would try to unify these utilities, considering one operates pumps and pipelines and the other operates pumps and pipelines too.

Um, that's how it's done in a lot of places

/// have lived a LOT of places
/// This is not odd

Goddammnit...this is kind of scary.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/02/08/xcel-inspections/

Is this going to save or cost me money? I really don't know what to think about this. I live in Indy and this is the first I have heard about it.

BDR459: Is this going to save or cost me money? I really don't know what to think about this. I live in Indy and this is the first I have heard about it.

Depends. Most places peg the sewage on the amount of water pumped. Makes sense, but... If you water your lawn on the same line as the rest of the house, then you're paying sewage rates on all those gallons going into the grass. This can add up, a LOT. I've also heard from people with a swimming pool who got tagged for a huge sewage bill (on top of the big water bill) for filling their pool.

// A friend of mine got a completely separate metered line for his sprinkler system so he doesn't have to pay for the sewage on that water.

downstairs: Ok, I get the joke. But many cities have a "Sewerage and Water Board." Mine does.

This. My water and sewer are both handled by the City Water Department. It's badly-managed because it's city-controlled, but there's never been any problem with getting water or getting rid of sewage.

remus: BDR459: Is this going to save or cost me money? I really don't know what to think about this. I live in Indy and this is the first I have heard about it.

Depends. Most places peg the sewage on the amount of water pumped. Makes sense, but... If you water your lawn on the same line as the rest of the house, then you're paying sewage rates on all those gallons going into the grass. This can add up, a LOT. I've also heard from people with a swimming pool who got tagged for a huge sewage bill (on top of the big water bill) for filling their pool.

// A friend of mine got a completely separate metered line for his sprinkler system so he doesn't have to pay for the sewage on that water.

Our local "Hydro-Electric" utility actually combines electric, water and sewer as items one one bill.

And they do give you a break if you have a swimming pool, based on dimensions. But no break for lawn watering. I agree, the anal-retentive people here put far too much water on their lawns. They should just let it go brown. It always turns green again in the fall.

It's a good idea to have water and sewage on the same bill. The best way to gauge sewer usage is by measuring the amount of water used, that way the people and businesses that use the most sewer resources are charged appropriately for the treatment that must be done to their discharged waste.

Day_Old_Dutchie: And they do give you a break if you have a swimming pool, based on dimensions. But no break for lawn watering. I agree, the anal-retentive people here put far too much water on their lawns. They should just let it go brown. It always turns green again in the fall.

I've watered about five times in two years (when I planted some grass seed). Other than that, I let mother nature do the work.

It's a trifecta of historic inefficiency!

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simkatu: It's a good idea to have water and sewage on the same bill. The best way to gauge sewer usage is by measuring the amount of water used, that way the people and businesses that use the most sewer resources are charged appropriately for the treatment that must be done to their discharged waste.

Actually, that could work. In fact, I'm slightly amazed as to why it wasn't available in the first place.

Day_Old_Dutchie: remus: BDR459: Is this going to save or cost me money? I really don't know what to think about this. I live in Indy and this is the first I have heard about it.

Depends. Most places peg the sewage on the amount of water pumped. Makes sense, but... If you water your lawn on the same line as the rest of the house, then you're paying sewage rates on all those gallons going into the grass. This can add up, a LOT. I've also heard from people with a swimming pool who got tagged for a huge sewage bill (on top of the big water bill) for filling their pool.

// A friend of mine got a completely separate metered line for his sprinkler system so he doesn't have to pay for the sewage on that water.

Our local "Hydro-Electric" utility actually combines electric, water and sewer as items one one bill.

And they do give you a break if you have a swimming pool, based on dimensions. But no break for lawn watering. I agree, the anal-retentive people here put far too much water on their lawns. They should just let it go brown. It always turns green again in the fall.

We have seperate meters for the lawn /pool. You can fill the pool from the hydrant by renting a meter, (or just do it at night!)

I won't be satisfied until I can shiat into a cable outlet.

...and the Civil Engineer said "who else would route a sewage line through a recreational area?"

remus: BDR459: Is this going to save or cost me money? I really don't know what to think about this. I live in Indy and this is the first I have heard about it.

Depends. Most places peg the sewage on the amount of water pumped. Makes sense, but... If you water your lawn on the same line as the rest of the house, then you're paying sewage rates on all those gallons going into the grass. This can add up, a LOT. I've also heard from people with a swimming pool who got tagged for a huge sewage bill (on top of the big water bill) for filling their pool.

// A friend of mine got a completely separate metered line for his sprinkler system so he doesn't have to pay for the sewage on that water.

The water company at my previous residence had special provisions for filling pools. You'd call them and say "I'm filling my pool" and someone would come out to see if you were filling it and then come back out when you said you were done. They'd make note of water usage and not charge you sewage on 95% of that water.

/Didn't want to pay sewage for filling a 54,000 gallon pool. Ouch.
//Never filled it anyway. Damn drought.

So nobody has ever had to write a check to City Hall for the $10 in water and $80 sewer fee combined? Los Angeles has something called the Department of Water and Power which also handles the sewage. There they only double your water bill to assess the sewage fee instead of charging 8 times the water to figure out sewer in my town in whOregon.

Makes perfect sense in terms of anaerobic digestion to produce methane. Water is mixed with sewage. Wait. Natural gas is produced, distributed by the gas company. You people aren't lookin' to the future.

I have an idea. What if we just combine the drinking fountain and the urinal?

//HAHAHA, Urinal.

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Um...Every single place I've ever lived has a combined water and sewer department. In fact, I had no idea they were actually separate anywhere.

Has anyone ever seen that episode of the Three Stooges where they're hired to work on someone's house, but they get the power lines and the water lines mixed up, so whenever anyone in the house turns on an appliance water shoots out everywhere? 'Cause I'm imagining it'd be kind of like that. Only with more shiat and fire.

Just for the sake of accuracy, Indianapolis sewer bills have been based on water usage, and included with the water bills, for many years.
And Citizen's Gas has nothing to do with whatever Kennedy enterprise someone mentioned. It's a public trust, a one of a kind entity, and goes back for a hundred years or more. The full name is Citizen's Gas and Coke Utility, but I don't think they've dealt in coke for a while.

/used to dig ditches for CGCU 50 years ago.
//not a cool story in any way.

Hey subby, been around much?


disapproves

You can put water and gas together.

You can't put water and sewer together.

Am I the only one who thinks this makes a certain amount of sense? Who decided that one company should deliver the water and another should carry it away in the first place?

Yeah, I work for the organisation that provides the water supply and sewage treatment for the Vancouver, BC region. Separate divisions, yes, but the same company.

This is my first year as a homeowner. I find it humourous that a tiny fraction of the water and sewage bill that I paid comes back to me as my wages. I am sure to thank all my home-owning friends for the contributions as well.

/getting a kick, etc...

"We're (pfffft) Doomed, We'll (pblllllt) never (pflllbt) make it."

jingks: skinink: Two utilities, one cup pipe?

FTFY?

Ceci n'est pas une poop

Wants a piece of the action.

It's time for another:



/you bet it's hot.

I was born and raised in Puerto Rico, which has a government run monopoly company that handles both water and sewer ("Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados"), so I am getting a kick out of these replies.

downstairs: Ok, I get the joke. But many cities have a "Sewerage and Water Board." Mine does.

Sounds torturous.

It's pipes! It's all pipes!!!

/Costanza

Waiting for the earth-shattering kaboom.

tommyl66: ...and the Civil Engineer said "who else would route a sewage line through a recreational area?"

I see what you did there. Consider both recreational areas

downstairs: Ok, I get the joke. But many cities have a "Sewerage and Water Board." Mine does. Waterboarding is supposed to be illegal