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Anonymous wrote:I’m in MoCo and didn’t get a warning. Is this county wide?

Yea it’s county wide. They’re worried more pipes are going to burst and we’ll all have to go on a boil water advisory

I’d be frantically doing all the laundry and dishes and showering to prepare for the worst. We could go two weeks without laundry faculties if I had just done it all.

Your comment should be used as an exemplar when trying to teach the tragedy of the commons to economics students…

I don’t trust others to act with the common good in mind. Such is the reality we live in. I have to behave as though it’s all going to hell anyway.

Gross. MoCo is such a dump.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m in MoCo and didn’t get a warning. Is this county wide?

Yea it’s county wide. They’re worried more pipes are going to burst and we’ll all have to go on a boil water advisory

I live in Rockville. I do not pay WSSC for water. Am I included?

Who provides your water? I don’t mean who pays the bill, but who supplies it.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't you love how WSSC recently hugely raised fees for 'infrastructure', yet they have a crisis now just because it is cold? So where did that massive increase in infrastructure fees go? Honestly, the only way to get utilities to fix something these days is to absolutely break it. Maybe they'll finally be forced to upgrade infrastructure like they're charging us to do.

That money pays for these pipe replacements. It costs less to replace broken ones than to replace everything.

Didn't the existing fees cover maintenance or were the existing fees just to pay for treating the water? I love how these utilities never seem to collecting for maintenance.

Anonymous wrote:Don't you love how WSSC recently hugely raised fees for 'infrastructure', yet they have a crisis now just because it is cold? So where did that massive increase in infrastructure fees go? Honestly, the only way to get utilities to fix something these days is to absolutely break it. Maybe they'll finally be forced to upgrade infrastructure like they're charging us to do.

That money pays for these pipe replacements. It costs less to replace broken ones than to replace everything.

https://www.rockvillemd.gov/685/Drinking-Water

Rockville:

Where does my water come from?
Our primary source of water is the Potomac River. When Rockville’s water plant is not operating because of necessary improvements or maintenance activities, or in cases of regional drought, Rockville purchases water from the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC). In 2023, Rockville purchased about 6.54 million gallons of water (approximately 0.39% of our annual production) from WSSC, which also receives its water from the Potomac River.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m in MoCo and didn’t get a warning. Is this county wide?

Yea it’s county wide. They’re worried more pipes are going to burst and we’ll all have to go on a boil water advisory

I live in Rockville. I do not pay WSSC for water. Am I included?

+1 Same, I pay City of Rockville, not WSSC for water. Have heard nothing about this.

I assume they use the same pipes??

It’s the water source that matters, not whose pipes they use. If WSSC wastes all the water in a shared aquifer, no one else has it either.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m in MoCo and didn’t get a warning. Is this county wide?

Yea it’s county wide. They’re worried more pipes are going to burst and we’ll all have to go on a boil water advisory

How many people days of water use equals one pipe burst water waste?

I'm going to skip a shower, but I also don't have in-person work meetings today.

I'm also following "if it's yellow, let it mellow" and "if it's brown, flush it down."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m in MoCo and didn’t get a warning. Is this county wide?

Yea it’s county wide. They’re worried more pipes are going to burst and we’ll all have to go on a boil water advisory

I live in Rockville. I do not pay WSSC for water. Am I included?

+1 Same, I pay City of Rockville, not WSSC for water. Have heard nothing about this.

I assume they use the same pipes??

Anonymous wrote:Don't you love how WSSC recently hugely raised fees for 'infrastructure', yet they have a crisis now just because it is cold? So where did that massive increase in infrastructure fees go? Honestly, the only way to get utilities to fix something these days is to absolutely break it. Maybe they'll finally be forced to upgrade infrastructure like they're charging us to do.

+1 and upgrade their messaging to customers which seems to be spotty to nonexistent.

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Anonymous wrote:You can use baby wipes for your stinky bits if you're a water hero, or take a 5 min shower if you're not.

Not judging. The county and WSSC should really not have let it come to this. Water main replacements were needed years ago. Customers should do their part to avoid a boil water advisory, but also should not bear the brunt of water mismanagement.

Yes and they keep raising our rates too.. for worse service?

Yes. Last quarter our bill was higher than the same period the year prior even though we used 1000 less gallons of water. They dramatically increased fees for infrastructure.

F'em. WSSC does tons and tons of shady crap where they have handed out massive bills ($500-900+) to almost everyone in our neighborhood. They always claim 'it must be a leak in your house' when it is never due to a leak in anyone's house. They make it difficult for customers to appeal and/or get correction to their bills. It honestly seems like a pattern of dropping unexpected massive bills on customers just to see if they can get some people to pay grossly over inflated bills because they don't want to have to spend the effort fighting. WSSC blows.

Don't you love how WSSC recently hugely raised fees for 'infrastructure', yet they have a crisis now just because it is cold? So where did that massive increase in infrastructure fees go? Honestly, the only way to get utilities to fix something these days is to absolutely break it. Maybe they'll finally be forced to upgrade infrastructure like they're charging us to do.

I live in Bethesda and did not get a notice about this.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m in MoCo and didn’t get a warning. Is this county wide?

Yea it’s county wide. They’re worried more pipes are going to burst and we’ll all have to go on a boil water advisory

I live in Rockville. I do not pay WSSC for water. Am I included?

+1 Same, I pay City of Rockville, not WSSC for water. Have heard nothing about this.