Dear editor,
Our rural directors, after passing the rate structure for the billing of water use, stated that they would review their decision in March of this year.
Well, here we are and I would like our directors to rethink the billing process and the fairness of it for the following reasons.
A. We are being billed for 15 cubic metres of water whether we use it or not. In other words if we only use 10 cubic metres of water during the period from October to March, we will have been charged for 30 cubic metres that we didn't use.
But when we need to use extra water in the spring and summer for our gardens and lawns, we get charged again for any amount exceeding 15 cubic metres and at a higher rate.
So not only have they quite literally stolen 30 cubic metres of water from us through the winter, when we need to use that water that we saved; we have to pay for it again at a higher price.
The solution to this is very straightforward.
Bill us once a year for 180 cubic metres of water, and at that time bill us for any extra water used over the 180 cubic metres.
After all that is why the meters were installed to begin with, was to give the regional district the ability to tell who was using the water.
Not only will you save hundreds of dollars in postage from billing once a year, it would be a fairer process, and some of us might even give you credit for doing the right thing.
R. Mcculloch,
Area B
