I should not have said we wouldn't have enough revenue to run the
department. I was just being amusing, but not so amusing as it turns out.
We would raise the rates to ensure we have enough money to support our
operating budget and our capital plan. We are self-funded only from
water bills,
Absolutely not. We are required to adjust the rates to provide the revenue we
need to produce safe water sufficient to provide drinking water and
fire-fighting capability to the Town. If water use decreases, we will just
raise the rates as needed.
Ruth Ann
(She, her, hers)
> On Aug 4, 2022,
Please forgive me if this has already been asked and answered (there are so
many emails on this topic I've lost track) but where can we find the water
usage data for our own homes, please? Anne Warner
On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 10:12 AM RAandBOB wrote:
> Check out the water rates. Those in the
That same revenue can be achieved with less water usage and higher rates
for non-essential water usage.
On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 9:10 PM Ruth Ann Hendrickson
wrote:
> No, I'm not. This is just a natural outcome of the tiered water rates
> intended to discourage water use. Just like the town tax
WOW-Are you saying we relying on “over-use” to fund the Water Dept?
So, the rest must cut back even further to allow this use and to provide
revenues?
Perhaps I have misunderstood.
I hope so.
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Sara Mattes
> On Aug 4, 2022, at 8:29 PM, Ruth Ann Hendrickson
> wrote:
>
> Yes, of
Be careful what you wish for. If the high use people use less water,
which I hope they will, the water rates for everyone will have to go up
to provide the revenue needed to keep the water clean and safe.
Ruth Ann Hendrickson
(She, her)
On 8/4/2022 8:36 PM, Joan Kimball wrote:
Perhaps we
Perhaps we should find a way to fund our water that does not depend on
excessive water usage.
On Thu, Aug 4, 2022, 8:29 PM Ruth Ann Hendrickson
wrote:
> Yes, of course some people don't water their lawns and others have little
> or no lawn and then some have vast lawns and water them lavishly.
Your water bill, about to arrive in your mail box, shows your useage.
Ruth Ann Hendrickson
(She, her)
On 8/4/2022 10:42 AM, Anne Warner wrote:
Please forgive me if this has already been asked and answered (there
are so many emails on this topic I've lost track) but where can we
find the
Yes, of course some people don't water their lawns and others have
little or no lawn and then some have vast lawns and water them lavishly.
We have not recently run the data to see the percentages. Let's just say
that if all the lavish waterers stopped irrigating, we wouldn't have
enough
I'm curious, is it that some folks are going WAY over 65 gal/per person/per
day and throwing off the average or is that most households are going over
that per day? Just curious if it is largely a systemic issue or just a few
outliers that are pulling the numbers high. That seems like the water
And what is the rate for the second tier?
On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 10:38 AM Debra Daugherty
wrote:
> What is the water usage rate corresponding to the bottom of the top tier?
>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 10:12 AM RAandBOB wrote:
>
>> Check out the water rates. Those in the bottom tier, which is
What is the water usage rate corresponding to the bottom of the top tier?
On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 10:12 AM RAandBOB wrote:
> Check out the water rates. Those in the bottom tier, which is equivalent
> to 65 gallons per person per day, pay $6.52 per 1000 gallons while those in
> the top tier and
The state restricts us in three ways: we are supposed to meet 65 gallons per
person per day overall. We have a maximum amount of water we may draw from the
well and from the pond. Our unaccounted for water should be less than 10%. We
don’t meet any of those metrics.
We are not over by a lot
Check out the water rates. Those in the bottom tier, which is equivalent to 65
gallons per person per day, pay $6.52 per 1000 gallons while those in the top
tier and all those with an irrigation meter pay $32.13.
Ruth Ann
(She, her, hers)
> On Aug 3, 2022, at 7:51 PM, Sara Mattes wrote:
>
>
Well, according to this chart
http://archive.boston.com/yourtown/specials/water/massachusetts_water_usage_map/
Lincoln uses about the same or slightly more than surrounding towns, except
for Weston shows a number so high (and round) that I'm not sure one can
trust it.
No idea what the date of
Remember, that is an average PER PERSON/day.
Many use much less.
Town data tells who is using what.
I hope there is some enforcement pressure on those who exceed that 65 gallons!
Sent from my iPad
> On Aug 3, 2022, at 2:01 PM, Elaine Hawkes wrote:
>
>
> Thank you for clarifying, Ursula.
Thank you for clarifying, Ursula. Your email might have stuck wrong in my
head! It would be interesting to compare, if only to get ideas from towns
who are doing better than we on how they are able to. But that might not be
possible.
Thanks,
E
On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 3:06 PM Ursula Nowak wrote:
If you are referring to my email, I didn't say we are using more than our
neighboring towns. We are using more than the goal set by the state for us
which is 65 gallons per person per day. At least that is my understanding
of why we are a level above the state drought restrictions but perhaps a
First, is the data correct?
Sent from my iPhone
> On Aug 3, 2022, at 2:42 PM, Elaine Hawkes wrote:
>
> Having read that our town uses more water than others, and not noticing that
> we, or our cars, are any cleaner than average, I am wondering in what ways
> we are using so much water.
>
Having read that our town uses more water than others, and not noticing
that we, or our cars, are any cleaner than average, I am wondering in what
ways we are using so much water.
Does the data give any information?
Thanks,
Elaine
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