Water rates in Westminster are out of control

[kfr]

Westminster city council has voted to increase water rates in Westminster. Dang it, my water bill was over $200 a month in the summer and I'm not going wild watering the lawn. I don't even drink that radioactive sludge coming from Stanley lake. I would like to have more of a vote before I am taxed. The city council seems to be full of a bunch of liberal women looking for ways to spend tax payer money. They are focusing on picking new colors for the city website, choosing ugly outdoor light fixtures for the streets and making crappy bike lanes all over that nobody uses while closing down lanes for cars. For all of you Westminster folks - Lets get enough signatures to recall the socialist women here:
http://www.westminsterrecall.com/you...-the-task.html

[Grant H.]

Just your water bill was $200/month?

You say you weren't going hog wild watering your lawn, but at $9.91/1000gals (highest published residential water rate for Westminster) that's a sh!tload of water...

Anecdotally, I don't glow green and I spend all summer in Standley!!!

20180819_121239 by ARNEWB, on Flickr

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The way water rates increase, in most systems, is kind of a cronie-ism system.

The utility spends money to maintain/upgrade/improve service, then goes to the rate board to request a rate increase to pay for those expenditures and then make additional profit.

[beast556]

I feel your pain, our water bill has tripled in the last few years.

[BushMasterBoy]

If you can pee in the backyard, you can save some money.

[ChickNorris]

If you can pee in the backyard, you can save some money.

Greenest spot in the whole lawn

[roberth]

The rates were also raised to pay for new development, you know because millionaire developers can't be expected to pay for new utilities to get to their new developments when they're paying for the campaigns of communists.

I hope the morons who voted the (D) onto the council are happy with their new, higher water rates.

[ray1970]

Maybe you?ll get some sort of cost of living raise at work to kind of level everything out.

[Snowman78]

Just your water bill was $200/month?

You say you weren't going hog wild watering your lawn, but at $9.91/1000gals (highest published residential water rate for Westminster) that's a sh!tload of water...

Anecdotally, I don't glow green and I spend all summer in Standley!!!

20180819_121239 by ARNEWB, on Flickr

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The way water rates increase, in most systems, is kind of a cronie-ism system.

The utility spends money to maintain/upgrade/improve service, then goes to the rate board to request a rate increase to pay for those expenditures and then make additional profit.

Is it still a dry lake (no alcohol )?

[Ah Pook]

Just to have w/s in Nederland is $60 a month. Double/triple that if you are in the business district.

I can't wait to see the water bills in Candellis(sp). Denver Water is totally farking Gross reservoir.

I miss having well/septic.

[Grant H.]

Is it still a dry lake (no alcohol )?

Yes.

Not a huge deal for us, since our group is out there to work on progressing with wakeboarding, not just to party barge and occasionally ski/board.

It actually is nice on the holiday weekends, where drunk boating on state lakes is a real problem...