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Get a rebate on your sewerage rates charges

rainman66 · 2006-05-04 13:05:28

Here's a good one. Did you know that if your house's rainwater pipes are not connected to any sewer (i.e. only to a ground water soakaway) you can get a rate reduction on the waste discharge part of your water rates. Thames Water automatically assume you are connected to their system and charge you for processing rainwater…

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MSE_Kelvin Posts: 424 MSE Staff

18 February 2019 at 10:11AM

Morning Forumites,

I appreciate this is a very (very, very) old thread, but we're covering light sewerage rebates in this week's Money Tips Email and I was hoping to find someone who'd got one in the last year or so and how much they got back to use as an example.

If that's you, please reply on here or email kelvin.goodson@moneysavingexpert.com.

Thanks in advance for your time and help,

MSE Kelvin

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