I'll make this as short as possible -
I got my water bill from the City Municipals the other day.
The bill claimed I used 500,000 gallons of water in the span of a month, compared to 1,400 gallons the previous month.
So I go through every room, no leaks, basement is dry as a bone, and any crawl spaces are dry dirt as well.
Between city employees and my plumber they managed to find a leak near the "old" water meter that was capped off two or three decades ago. Possibly a rusty pipe the city said.
My plumber is a professional and his business partner does digging for a living as well (backed up sewers and things like that).
The plumber said there is absolutely no possible way half a million gallons of water leaked there because the top soil is dry as a bone, with some moisture down below, but definitely not THAT muddy. He said if that much water leaked out it would have flooded my yard, or basement, or somewhere.
Has anyone ever dealt with a leak of this kind? Because I simply find it extremely hard to believe that this amount of water can leak without have a single ounce of evidence. Everyone I talk to about this says it's ridiculous BS, even the city building inspector - yet the people at the municipals are claiming that it's "possible" and they "guess" this and
"guess" that but can't "say for sure" because they "just don't know".
Yet they still want my $1250 for water and $1250 for sewage, but they can't give me any answers. I'm waiting on a phone call from the Mayor in the next day or two. Just curious if anyone has faced something this atrocious before?
I got my water bill from the City Municipals the other day.
The bill claimed I used 500,000 gallons of water in the span of a month, compared to 1,400 gallons the previous month.
So I go through every room, no leaks, basement is dry as a bone, and any crawl spaces are dry dirt as well.
Between city employees and my plumber they managed to find a leak near the "old" water meter that was capped off two or three decades ago. Possibly a rusty pipe the city said.
My plumber is a professional and his business partner does digging for a living as well (backed up sewers and things like that).
The plumber said there is absolutely no possible way half a million gallons of water leaked there because the top soil is dry as a bone, with some moisture down below, but definitely not THAT muddy. He said if that much water leaked out it would have flooded my yard, or basement, or somewhere.
Has anyone ever dealt with a leak of this kind? Because I simply find it extremely hard to believe that this amount of water can leak without have a single ounce of evidence. Everyone I talk to about this says it's ridiculous BS, even the city building inspector - yet the people at the municipals are claiming that it's "possible" and they "guess" this and
"guess" that but can't "say for sure" because they "just don't know".
Yet they still want my $1250 for water and $1250 for sewage, but they can't give me any answers. I'm waiting on a phone call from the Mayor in the next day or two. Just curious if anyone has faced something this atrocious before?