Water rates
 

Just received our water rates for the coming year, wasn't really expecting it to be honest, thought you just got a bill every quarter with your usage/service costs :confused::confused:

$863 plus usage costs on top, seems a bit steep to me :ohmy:

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whoooaaa !!! how many Litres a day are on your Bill ?????

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This thread/post ref may help for comparison...
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...68#post7597668

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Think this is just service charge for water and sewerage, guess I'll have usage on top of this :confused:

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Heres the link for WA explaining the charges.
http://www.watercorporation.com.au/A..._metro_res.cfm

Wow....had not realised your water cost so much over that sided of the country.
....and I thought it was expensive in Melbourne !!!

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:omg_smile: hope you get the nice sparkly stuff for that amount;)

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I think you will find the annual service bill broken down as follows (Sample figures, depending on your property rating) ...
Water Residential - $200
Sewerage Residential - $524
Drainage Residential - $ 67

For a total of annual service charges of approx $800

Your water usage bill should come separately, twice a year ?
The attached examples should help.

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When you bought your house did your settlement agent not explain that to you?

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Are all houses on a water meter? or do you pay a flat usage rate per month?

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Here in my area of Perth you pay water rates per year, mine came today too. You then also pay usage during the year which is every 6 months. I think I pay a couple of hundred dollars a year for that.

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Cheers for that :thumbup:

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Probably, possibly, dunno can't remember with everything else going on at the time.
Probably not though, he was pretty useless :blink:

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On settlement you usually have to pay the remainder of the years shire rates and water rates to your settlement agent. The itemisation on settlement would/should have had these payments on. You can pay quarterly, you pay about $10 interest but it helps spread the load. Shire rates will come soon too so expect a $1000+ for that too.

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We got ours on Tuesday $1055!!! This is just the rates the water usage is billed half yearly.
Watch out for the shire rates they are due to come out next month. Last year we paid $1945!!!
Very expensive time of year unless you get a good tax refund.

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At first it does seem like you're paying a hefty amount for water, but the standard annual water rate is only about $200. The large majority of the bill that you've received is actually for annual sewerage costs, for which there are no further charges for during the year.

Ours was $200 for water and $800 for sewerage.