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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A "massive" increase of $2.37 per month.

I simply can't imagine how anyone will possibly manage to come up with the extra 7.9 cents per day this will cost them. I fear many people will have to resort to selling their bodies to come up with that kind of cash, and those lucky enough to somehow scrimp and save the nickel and three pennies will be forced into the cruelest fate of all - choosing between paying the water bill or buying a single individually wrapped Werther's Original at the five and dime.   
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This was my reaction too, but from the upperNW neighborhood liserservs, you would think this is enough to drive hordes of bluehairs out of the District once and for all.[/quote]

That’s not what upper NW folks are upset about.

They are upset about the multiplier of the $24 charge.  It used to just be $24/month and now many people will have a 3.8 multiplier, so it’s $91/month.[/quote]

An ERU is roughly 900 square feet of impervious surface so if you have a 3.8 multiplier you have a house whose footprint is almost 3,500 square feet, and since I don't know of many 3,500sf ranch style homes in DC that really means your house is at least 7,000 square feet. I don't care where you live in DC, if you have a house that gargantuan you can afford to chip in $67 a month extra to keep our rivers clean.

And if you don't have a house that gargantuan, if for some inexplicable reason you have a reasonably sized house and thousands of square feet of pavement, good news! DC will pay you to remove that pavement and heavily subsidize a permeable replacement that will no longer count towards ERUs so there's literally no excuse to be upset over this charge.[/quote]

Why are you assuming the assessments have any bearing to reality?[/quote]

They have no bearing to reality or to how much water people use or to the cost of the water that people use. The city tries to hide that fact that making the pricing incredibly complicated. They are using complicated formulas and jargon and acronyms to hide the ball. [/quote]

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