Anonymous
Post 01/14/2025 14:18     Subject: PG and Moco residents asked to conserve water
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately the pipes and infrastructure is old here.

It's not a big deal for me to stop doing laundry, take a shorter shower, and not flush unless it's absolutely necessary.


How will it work when they double or quadruple the number of houses in each lot?


It’ll be better. Because it will have equity.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2025 11:11     Subject: PG and Moco residents asked to conserve water
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Exhibit #63828 rher Republicans hate America and Americans.


Republicans hate government that doesn't do its job. What has WSSC been doing with the fees it collects? Surely, some of those fees should go into a maintenance budget. Those fees should have accumulated over the last 50 years while the infrastructure has been aging. Let me guess: They have had a "balanced budget" over the last 50 years, and every dime brought in was spent.


You don't have to guess. You can look these things up, if you want to. Then you would actually know what you're talking about.


I don't need to. I know how it works. Nothing is ever budgeted for maintenance. Maintenance is always deferred to bonds or bond referendums. Then money is spent on debt service.

Fairfax County decided to use a bond to pay its share of WMATA. It's not like metro is going away. This is a recurring debt. It's exactly what you do not do with bonds unless you want yearly recurring debt service on bond after bond after bond.


If you knew how it works, you wouldn't have to "guess." The reality is that you don't know how it works. You don't know how WSSC works, and you don't know how WMATA works.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2025 09:56     Subject: PG and Moco residents asked to conserve water
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Exhibit #63828 rher Republicans hate America and Americans.


Republicans hate government that doesn't do its job. What has WSSC been doing with the fees it collects? Surely, some of those fees should go into a maintenance budget. Those fees should have accumulated over the last 50 years while the infrastructure has been aging. Let me guess: They have had a "balanced budget" over the last 50 years, and every dime brought in was spent.


You don't have to guess. You can look these things up, if you want to. Then you would actually know what you're talking about.


I don't need to. I know how it works. Nothing is ever budgeted for maintenance. Maintenance is always deferred to bonds or bond referendums. Then money is spent on debt service.

Fairfax County decided to use a bond to pay its share of WMATA. It's not like metro is going away. This is a recurring debt. It's exactly what you do not do with bonds unless you want yearly recurring debt service on bond after bond after bond.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2025 09:21     Subject: PG and Moco residents asked to conserve water
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:lol good luck with that one WSSC.

Maybe Moco should invest more in infrastructure than linear parks and killing SFH neighborhoods



WSSC is poorly managed and hasn't done well with long-term infrastructure replacement and upgrades. This area knows how to build all new and pretty but has no idea what it means to invest in existing, critical infrastructure.


I assume by “this area” you mean the United States of America.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2025 09:19     Subject: PG and Moco residents asked to conserve water
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Exhibit #63828 rher Republicans hate America and Americans.


Republicans hate government that doesn't do its job. What has WSSC been doing with the fees it collects? Surely, some of those fees should go into a maintenance budget. Those fees should have accumulated over the last 50 years while the infrastructure has been aging. Let me guess: They have had a "balanced budget" over the last 50 years, and every dime brought in was spent.


You don't have to guess. You can look these things up, if you want to. Then you would actually know what you're talking about.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2025 09:07     Subject: PG and Moco residents asked to conserve water
Anonymous wrote:Exhibit #63828 rher Republicans hate America and Americans.


Republicans hate government that doesn't do its job. What has WSSC been doing with the fees it collects? Surely, some of those fees should go into a maintenance budget. Those fees should have accumulated over the last 50 years while the infrastructure has been aging. Let me guess: They have had a "balanced budget" over the last 50 years, and every dime brought in was spent.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2025 08:04     Subject: PG and Moco residents asked to conserve water
Anonymous wrote:lol good luck with that one WSSC.

Maybe Moco should invest more in infrastructure than linear parks and killing SFH neighborhoods



WSSC is poorly managed and hasn't done well with long-term infrastructure replacement and upgrades. This area knows how to build all new and pretty but has no idea what it means to invest in existing, critical infrastructure.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2025 22:09     Subject: PG and Moco residents asked to conserve water
Exhibit #63828 rher Republicans hate America and Americans.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2025 21:06     Subject: PG and Moco residents asked to conserve water
Will they be ready for more cold days? They needed more time to close the leaks and who knows - was it a shortage of workers? Like schools needed an extra day to clear the snow and ice.
"Due in part to the public’s water-conservation efforts, WSSC Water has lifted the essential-water-use-only request as of 6:30 p.m. today for all 1.9 million customers in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties."
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2025 20:15     Subject: PG and Moco residents asked to conserve water
Essential water use only restriction lifted as of 6:30 pm today:

https://www.wsscwater.com/essential-use
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2025 19:26     Subject: PG and Moco residents asked to conserve water
Anonymous wrote:Walter Reed National Military Medical Center -- the nation's premiere military hospital -- today had no potable drinking water for its patients. The bottled water already on hand had to be rationed among patients.



It is so disgusting what is happening. And why is this happening? Another level to how DC area can't handle snow storms.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2025 17:57     Subject: PG and Moco residents asked to conserve water
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center -- the nation's premiere military hospital -- today had no potable drinking water for its patients. The bottled water already on hand had to be rationed among patients.

Anonymous
Post 01/13/2025 16:49     Subject: PG and Moco residents asked to conserve water
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately the pipes and infrastructure is old here.

It's not a big deal for me to stop doing laundry, take a shorter shower, and not flush unless it's absolutely necessary.


How will it work when they double or quadruple the number of houses in each lot?


Fine, because that's a different issue.

A water main break leads to loss of pressure because the water is gushing out. Loss of pressure potentially allows contaminants to get into the pipes.