Re: Energy - Power Meters

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:09:49 -0500, krw <krw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

Just got my water bill. $205, for June. <ouch>

How much is actually water? Probably lots of "fees" for garbage,
etc... taxation without vote :-(

Well, we're catching up with you. In the Pacific Northwet, no less.

It seems that our water utilities 'bought' a new supply which is turning
out to be a real white elephant.

Many years (decades) ago, the power local company built a generating
plant and, to feed it, a diversion dam to take water out of a local
river, store it in a lake and then run it through the plant. Well now
they've got a brand new lake where there was none before. So the real
estate folks went nuts selling waterfront property. Which, then the
power company throttled up the plant, turned back into a large mud flat.
So the (rich) people screamed and extracted an agreement from the power
company not to run the plant at any more than stream flow. Which made it
uneconomical and a few years ago, they said, "Screw it. We're outa
here". Which left the diversion system unmaintained, which will result
in the lake drying up in a couple of years. So the rich folks talked the
water utilities into buying the lake (and picking up a couple of million
dollar a year tab to maintain and operate the diversion dam) as a
potential water supply. But part of that agreement is that we can't
actually _use_ the water, or some rich folks will have docks over a mud
flat. So part of my bill consists of a charge to subsidize water skiers.

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