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skeenek t1_itusm5v wrote

You absolutely have a leak of some sort somewhere. The average water bill has not increased 400% in any recent amount of time.

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IncidentNo4550 t1_itvrydq wrote

Not "recent" as in a couple of months, but they've grown a lot over time.

If I'm correctly interpreting the "Historic Rate Increases" on the DPW website (https://publicworks.baltimorecity.gov/proposed-rates), then the water and wastewater rates (which don't include things like account management and stormwater fees) have increased 333% since I bought my house in 2009.

And over the last 20 years, they've increased 580%. Cumulative inflation (according to https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/) has been about 65% over the same 20 years.
That's pretty significant.

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