Eddy Gordo Posted March 20, 2012 Share I dont normally analyze my rates paper as I just look at the amount due. This is mainly due to the fact that my rates are very low. However yesterday I decided to analyze the payment break down. The one that really got me was that I am charged for sewerage at 50 kilo litres!!!!!!!!!!! How the hell do they measure that???? Water which is on the same bill is has its own water meter. Now sewerage as in the toilet, does not have a meter. How do they assume what is used for sewerage!! I find this very strange, it is not like all our waste water is recycled into use for toilets only, then I wouldnt mind paying. This would be a design of the century for us in good old South africa. To top it off this amount is more than the water bill!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Posted March 20, 2012 Share What is your incoming water reading ? in thoery it should be the same as whats going out ( taps , showers , toilets ...ect ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumbleweed Posted March 20, 2012 Share Sewage or sewerage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichops Posted March 20, 2012 Share What is your incoming water reading ? in thoery it should be the same as whats going out ( taps , showers , toilets ...ect ) Except for what you consume - use to water your garden - wash you bike etc etc !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowbee Posted March 20, 2012 Share the formula for CT is 30% of your water usage goes into the loo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassie Posted March 20, 2012 Share the formula for CT is 30% of your water usage goes into the loo Where did you hear that?? I filled up my pool last year and paid for the entire Western Cape's sewage disposal!!! Heckflosse 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covie Posted March 20, 2012 Share And note in summer they double the sewerage cost ,, just because they can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heckflosse Posted March 20, 2012 Share Where did you hear that?? I filled up my pool last year and paid for the entire Western Cape's sewage disposal!!! Oh!!! I better check mine now.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nettie R Posted March 20, 2012 Share Ekurhuleni council charges effluent at a slightly cheaper rate than tap water, but they use your normal water kl consumption as an indication of how much your water you flush down your toilet. Edited March 20, 2012 by Fester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatGirl Posted March 20, 2012 Share jisklaaik watse k@k fred is dit die? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
American Flyers Posted March 20, 2012 Share The more water you use, the more you must pay for sewerage.... I work with wastewater treatment works and lots of wastewater treatment plants in SA could not cope with the flow.The governement or municipality did not put enough money to improve the plants in past 10years, so they have tofind extra money to improve the plants, otherwise they leak to the rivers. You will not believe it..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJR Posted March 20, 2012 Share *** of betaal is die wet van Transvaal (actually, in this case it is *** EN betaal......) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddy Gordo Posted March 20, 2012 Share No man, my water bill is less than the sewerage. I use borehole water to water my garden. Think I should use that too to fill the toilets, then what they gonna charge me for. Water = R45.00, Sewerage = R56 and then there is refuse removal, which is not alot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pastapouch Posted March 20, 2012 Share Problem is it take a lot more to get the water from sewerage clean again. Its actually a design fault, because getting soaps and grime from bathing is easy, shyte is another story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1hill@aTime Posted March 20, 2012 Share No man, my water bill is less than the sewerage. I use borehole water to water my garden. Think I should use that too to fill the toilets, then what they gonna charge me for. Water = R45.00, Sewerage = R56 and then there is refuse removal, which is not alot refuse removal which sometimes gets taken away once a week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covie Posted March 20, 2012 Share yeah mine wentoct nov 200+-nov dec 200+-Dec Jan 700Jan Feb 700 And i have a ridiculously small patch of grass. that i sometimes remember to water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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