Wait until Mark Sandberg (first quarter sewer billing, June 1 letter to editor) learns this.
Add this to your complaint about your quarterly sewer invoices being based on the first quarter’s usage.
Did you know that your first quarter water meter reading isn’t actually for the months of January, February and March?
Meters are actually read sometime in early December, and again in early February.
That’s the first quarter period on which your sewer charges are based for the entire year.
By reading your meter around the first week of December, the consumption includes all of your family’s Christmas visitors.
And of course, all visitors over the festive season flush your toilets.
The Greater Vernon Water utility regularly and routinely overcharges for services they are not providing quarterly base water rates are proof.
The North Okanagan’s elected officials allow this customer gouging to continue year after year.
Barb Mitchell
Coldstream
