Dear Queens Crap,I've had the new water meter installed. I've also visited their website that lists out your water consumption daily/hourly, etc. I use very little water. I don't cook much or even water my lawn.
Their website says I am using water when I am asleep (hours of 1am to 7am). They also claim I am using 115+ gallons on days when I'm not even home!! I called the DEP and they said they'll send some guy over in ONE month! I don't know if he fixes anything. This is really aggravating me.
You should have your readers check their daily readings on the DEP website because they're scamming us out of our money!! Then they just hire incompetent people so the problem never gets resolved!!!!! This is a pain in my XXXX.
Your Reader
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ahhh so how do you check it on the website??
Just another way to scam the middle class so they get fed up and leave. Bloomburg wants his rich friends in Manhattan and the illegals and third worlders in the outer boroughs. Looks like his plan is right on schedule. I feel sorry for the senior citizens who can't afford to move, but have to pay all the added taxes and increases. Bloomburg figures they'll die off eventually.
Just another way to scam the middle class so they get fed up and leave. Bloomburg wants his rich friends in Manhattan and the illegals and third worlders in the outer boroughs. Looks like his plan is right on schedule. I feel sorry for the senior citizens who can't afford to move, but have to pay all the added taxes and increases. Bloomburg figures they'll die off eventually.
ahhh so how do you check it on the website??
https://a826-amr.nyc.gov/DEP_AMRReads/
Their website says I am using water when I am asleep (hours of 1am to 7am). They also claim I am using 115+ gallons on days when I'm not even home!!
That's a lot of water, but I guess it's possible that you might have a leak in your furnace that is using water, and/or toilets that are leaking and drawing water.
When the new meter installer showed up unexpectedly at my door I denied him access as it was inconvenient and said I'd call for a future appointment.
Got a few notices, "We'll be in your neighborhood installing...." which I ignored.
They haven't bothered me since and I retain my old meter.
I was advised by a DEP worker I know that I should keep on ignoring the DEP's contractor and they will give up.
He also said these new meters have too many problems.
Doesn't this sound a lot like Manes' PVB computerized reader scam?
Advice for the person with the questionable water bill:
I hope he writes a letter to the DEP Correspondence Unit for them to look into his bill; otherwise it will not get resolved. The DEP has people from Honeywell who will go out to his home and do a Free Survey to determine whether he has a leak.
First see if your meterface shows that the needle is moving when you have no water running. If it is you have a leak somewhere.
Next, take an empty 1 gallon water jug and use a measuring cup to fill it. 16 cups is 1 gallon. Mark the outside of the jug with a magic marker while it is sitting on a level table. Read your meter face and then fill the jug to 1 gallon from a faucet and read the meter face again. 100 cu ft = 748 gallons so 1 gallon = 0.1337 cu ft If your meterface needle moves more than this it is reading too fast and running up your bill.
HTH
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