Our water bill has gone through the roof!

My last bill was $250! Granted, we run our irrigation through our city water. We now preparing to have someone come out to give us an estimate to dig a well. Our neighbors just had one done (they use it for their salt water pool) and they love it.

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We are in the country, so we have a well.

Curious, is that bill for one or two months?

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Wow, our water and sewer combined is about 50 or 60 a month.
We had a well at our last 2 addresses. The first one was yucky. The water was yellow and smelled. So we got our all drinking water in town. The second well was fine. It didn't have a bad taste, but I was so used to city water, that I could only drink it if I put it in the fridge. Now of course that I have city water, it tastes like bleach to me.

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I should have clarified that. It is for 2 months.

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We have a well but the water isn't great. I use it for cooking or drinking boiled, but don't drink it straight out of the tap.
Our last house we paid about $60/month for water and sewer but I know the rates have gone up a lot there in the last 4 years.

Where we live, we have to have a well. We have never had a problem with the water tasting bad or anything like that. The only problem is worrying about it going dry when we have a drought like last year.

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Many years ago dh and I had a well when we lived in our trailer in the country. Never again! The water smelled, looked, and tasted bad, we always seemed to have problems with the well pump, and we worried all the time that it would dry up when we had a drought. I know that city water can get expensive, but I'm more than happy to pay for that expense as opposed to going back to a well.

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Yes, we have a well and a septic system. We also have a separate water system for irrigating the yard in the summer.

Do keep in mind that a well is just a delayed expense. A lot of your expenses are on the front-end, when you install the system (drill the hole, line the hole, buy and install the pump, pipe into your house or where you want it, a filtering system, and a pressure tank). Then you don't have many expenses until something breaks - and then you wish you had been paying monthly. In other words, well water isn't FREE. You're just paying for it by a different method.

In our state, you can't just sink a well. You need water rights. Not all real estate property titles include water rights. That is something you'll have to check out.

And in our state, even with water rights, we need approval from the Department of Water Quality to sink a well. If our well goes bad and we're forced to sink a new one, that's it. All property owners are allowed to have only two wells. We'll also have to pay to abandon the original well. Thankfully we're still on our first well with the property so we have a way to go.

We DO like our water. We draw from a thousand-year aquifer so it is pretty good water. However, it is pretty hard so we have to have a water softener and we filter our water A LOT. If I had my way I'd have a blue-light bacteria killer on the system, too. Some people bleach their wells (like how the city chlorinates their water.)

Also, if you have a well you don't know how much flouride your children are getting (too much, too little). Cities usually flouridate their water to keep the children's teeth healthy. When DD was little her dentist gave her flouride tablets for her teeth. Some people like not having flouride in their water.

Lastly, some cities won't let you sink a well to fill a pool. Again, you have to check on permitted uses. Good luck.

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We have one. We share with 4 or 5 other houses. We're at my moms house, so she has 2 1/2 feet of water per acre and we're on 2 1/2 acres. She pays 20$ a month, and they dont limit it or keep track of the usage(i think). We're also on a septic tank thats our own. Funny thing is, the city sewer plant is about 2 miles away from our house!

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