RE: Re: water meters

I sympathize.  We have a sewer tax that's based on footage on the road, and
for us that's the long side of the property.  We are, however, on our own
septic (and the sewer line doesn't cross the conservation strip, so there's
no choice involved).  Gotta pay it anyway...  

Libby
Maryland zone 6
expecting 6-12 more inches of white stuff over the weekend

-----Original Message-----
From: Kitty Morrissy
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: 2/13/2003 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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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