Huge increase in coop water bill

Categories: Utilities

I’m on the board of a 100-year old 12-unit building in the Slope. Apparently, our water bill has increased dramatically — in 2007, it ran $3000 for the year, and in 2008 had increased to $13,000.

I’ve scheduled a leak audit from Honeywell (I guess the DEP contracts out to Honeywell to conduct them). But has anyone had a similar experience, or any ideas as to why it might be so high?

One possible explanation for us might be that some work was done on the local sewer system midway through last year; would this explain the increase at all?

By GBanner | 03/12/2009 12:04 PM