said by 07108968:What quantity of water were you using for $40/mo, did that include a sewer charge?
I pay ~$120 quarterly combined water and sewer.(works out to half-half)
There is a lot involved with running a municipal water system.
I know people that have good wells and others the water isn't worth using for the toilet.
I wouldn't mind septic instead of a sewer system but I like having a basically unlimited amount of fresh clean drinking water, that is under constant pressure, you never have to wait for the pump to "catch up" or losing the "prime".
Its a 4" bore well and the pump is an in-line autopriming and I have a cycle-stop on it as well.
Its a family of 4 mom, dad, 2 kids (not teenagers).
Yes we have a septic system since we have farm land all around.
Pressure is set to approx ~60 psi and the pump comes on once this drops below ~40psi. While water is in use it well runs constantly because of the cycle-stop.
Line from the well to the pressure tank is 1".
This also feeds our open loop geothermal (~7gal/min) and tankless hot water heater.)
Geothermal discharge is underground through a tube and sock and everything else is through the septic system and drainage field as usual.
If the system was not heating and cooling the house it would be closer to $10-20/mo for water.