Re: Re: water meters

Auralie,
That's $5000!  Unless you were paying less 30 yrs ago. But still!
But I suppose if you demanded they supply you something for your taxes
paid, they'd hit you with a whopping price tag for hooking you up.  Still,
just not right.

Kitty


> [Original Message]
> From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 2/13/2003 1:36:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: water meters
>
> In a message dated 02/13/2003 3:55:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> kmrsy@earthlink.net writes:
>
> > Yes we are fortunate here.  We get a good amount of rain and water from
the 
> > Great Lakes I believe is piped down here, too.
> > 
>
> Here in the midst of the great metropolitan sprawl, 40 miles north of New 
> York City, we have neither public water nor sewage.  We are very
fortunate 
> that our well supplies good water - neighbors on either side have less
good 
> water from their wells, and a couple of them have water brought in.  With 
> last summer's drought we were afraid we would be out of water, but though
we 
> had some grit, we never dried up.  However, we would not think of using a 
> hose to water the garden.  In the worst dry spells I carry buckets until
my 
> back breaks, but at least that is better for the pump than  running the
hose. 
>  To top it all, we are charged a "water tax" each year when we pay our
local 
> property tax.  It isn't a lot - about $150/year.  The first few years we 
> lived here I protested, but was always told "maybe someday the town will
put 
> water up your road, so you have to pay the tax." Of course they never
will, 
> but I finally decided life was too short to get all het up about
something I 
> was never going to win. But in 33 years we have paid quite a bit of
money.  
> Auralie
>
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