Quick answer: Water used for landscape irrigation soaks into the ground and never reaches the sewer, but a standard commercial or multifamily...
A Dedicated Irrigation Meter Stops Sewer Charges on Landscape Water
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Understand Your Water Bill
Water Flow Innovations analyzes commercial, industrial and multifamily water and sewer bills. Send 12 months of billing along with your meter make, model and size, and we will tell you what is driving the charge and whether anything on this page applies to your site. If the answer is that your billing is correct and your meter is accurate, we will tell you that too.
Winter Averaging: Why Your Commercial Sewer Bill Rarely Gets the Break
Quick answer: Winter averaging caps the sewer charge using cold-weather water use as a stand-in for indoor flow, so summer irrigation is not billed...
What Is a Sewer Charge on a Commercial Account, and Why It Is Often the Bigger Half
A commercial sewer charge is billed off your water meter, not your drain. How it is calculated, why commercial gets no winter averaging, and why a meter error costs you twice.
Deduct Meters: How to Stop Paying Sewer Charges on Water That Never Reaches the Sewer
On most commercial accounts every gallon metered is billed as sewage. A deduct meter is the mechanism that breaks that assumption, and the credit is never applied for you.
How Is a Commercial Sewer Bill Calculated? The Arithmetic, With Real Utility Tariffs
A commercial sewer bill comes from your water meter reading: fixed charge by service size, volume at your class rate, plus strength surcharge.
Why Is My Sewer Bill So High? 9 Causes and How to Check Each One
Your sewer bill is almost never measured. It is calculated from your water meter, so the same reading is billed twice. Nine causes in the order worth checking them, cheapest first.
How to Read Your Commercial Water & Sewer Bill
Most facility managers and property owners look at their water bill just long enough to see the total and move on. That's understandable — municipal...