Water Bill Sewerage Standing Charge Doubled

booshya

QrizB said:

Cardew said:

booshya said:

Looks like you may have attempted to link to a dodgy website there.
Not only because


But I'm not sure where they get the figure of £422 for Anglian Water.

If that were correct, based upon the prices I gave previously, that would assume an average property uses about 240m3 of water per year. That would be about 50% more than the figures usually thought appropriate for an average property with 4 inhabitants; even with 6 inhabitants an average property typically only consumes about 200m3 per year according to Southern Water
https://www.southernwater.co.uk/account/water-usage-guide

Thanks for this. I have used that website before and obviously it didn't show as being risky. However it now shows as dodgy for me so I have deleleted it from my earlier post. Although I can't think why a website giving water prices in UK would be risky.

The problem is only that the website's encryption certificate expired over the weekend. Not unusual for small organisations (or big ones, for that matter).

Working again now

discoverwater.co.uk seems to be part of/related to ofwat and various other government departments.

Lets Encrypt 3 month certificates are the ones they issue free of charge.

A  reminder to renew certificates is emailed 1 month before expiry, and again 1 week before expiry. Looks like someone hadn't been reading their emails.

booshya

Cardew said:

booshya said:

Thanks for the above explanation

The prices I initially mentioned for AW were sewerage only, as that was the subject matter the OP had raised.
(and obviously only based upon a metered property, as that was what I presumed the OP has)

I know someone who lives in Gloucester (so very close to the River Severn) and lives in a 3 bed-semi. They paid £358.29 in total for combined water and sewerage on an unmetered basis.

SouthernWater, for metered properties, charge the following annual standing charges for sewerage only:

Wastewater:     £23.81
Surface water drainage:     £21.60   
Highway drainage     £10.80

But they also charge a whopping £2.045 / m3

https://www.southernwater.co.uk/account/how-we-calculate-your-bill

I had replied to 'coffekup' and quoted their post which is why gave prices for water and sewerage.

Now totally confused.

Coffeekup was responding to my post, or at least I reasonably thought so as they quoted it and referred to the same sewerage supplier. I only mentioned sewerage prices, as I later said.

£87pa standing charge plus say 160m3 @ 140p/m3 is £311pa, so £20-£30 pm is about right for sewerage only for a typical property supplied in the AW region.

Btw, the 3 bed semi I referred to is not special in any way; it is a typical 3 bed semi and has an RV the same as all the other 3 bed semis in the street. 

Cardew

booshya said:

Now totally confused.

Coffeekup was responding to my post, or at least I reasonably thought so as they quoted it and referred to the same sewerage supplier. I only mentioned sewerage prices, as I later said.

£87pa standing charge plus say 160m3 @ 140p/m3 is £311pa, so £20-£30 pm is about right for sewerage only for a typical property supplied in the AW region.

coffeekup stated:

'Yup AW payer here too, when I look at other people's SOA, and they pay £20-30 a month for there monthly DD, I shake my head in disbelief.'

It seems to me that he commenting that others only pay a direct debit of £20-30 a month which is lower than AW.

 I don't know many who pay separately by DD for just their sewerage; so I presumed he was refering to a combined water and sewerage.