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</style></head><body id="compText">When we received a higher-than-usual bill, I requested an audit of our account. This seemed to resolve the problem. <br><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px;">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: Christine Gray <langwidge@erols.com>
<br>Sent: Sep 30, 2007 8:46 PM
<br>To: 'The Charles Village Chat List' <chat@charlesvillage.info>
<br>Subject: Re: [Chat] water bill
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Book Antiqua" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; color: blue;">Odette and D.
Williams,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Book Antiqua" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; color: blue;">Thank you for
your messages. Nothing seems to be leaking. I have a new pipe from the street
to the house.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Book Antiqua" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Book Antiqua" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; color: blue;">I’ll try Cindy
tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Book Antiqua" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Book Antiqua" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; color: blue;">Christine <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">
chat-bounces@charlesvillage.info [mailto:chat-bounces@charlesvillage.info] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Odette Ramos<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, September 30, 2007
8:44 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <st1:personname w:st="on">The
Charles Village Chat List</st1:personname><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Chat] water bill</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">I called Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke's office about this
for a neighbor a couple of days ago - apparently this has been happening to
other folks across the city and it's because the bureau of water and waste
water at the city is starting to use a different system (trying to upgrade
finally) - and it has a few hic-ups now and then. Call Mary Pat Clarke's
office, Cindy (her staff person) can help. Or call the customer service
number on the bill, and they will probably tell you the same thing and re-work
the bill.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps.<br>
<br>
Odette<br>
<br>
<br>
********************* <br>
Odette T. Ramos <br>
<st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">3100 Harford Road</st1:street>
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<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Baltimore</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Maryland</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">21218</st1:postalcode></st1:place></st1:address>
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odette_ramos@hotmail.com<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">From: dwilliamsjhu02@hotmail.com<br>
To: chat@charlesvillage.info<br>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 00:08:01 +0000<br>
Subject: Re: [Chat] water bill<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">That can not be right, unless there is a
problem with a water line break? Noticed any sediment in your water?<br>
D'<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;">From: <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Kathleen Hruska <kshruska@mac.com></span></i><br>
Reply-To: <st1:personname w:st="on"><i><span style="font-style: italic;">The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Charles</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Village</st1:placename></st1:place> Chat List</span></i></st1:personname><i><span style="font-style: italic;"> <chat@charlesvillage.info></span></i><br>
To: <st1:personname w:st="on"><i><span style="font-style: italic;">The Charles
Village Chat List</span></i></st1:personname><i><span style="font-style: italic;">
<chat@charlesvillage.info></span></i><br>
Subject: <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Re: [Chat] water bill</span></i><br>
Date: <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:53:12 -0400</span></i><br>
<br>
Christine, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;">By all means, have the city send
someone out to re-check your meter! Just call the number on your
statement for billing inquiries. Last summer, I got a water bill for $900
when the meter reader inverted two numbers. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Also, you can check for a slow
leak in your commodes by putting cold coffee or a cola in your toilet
tanks. If there's a slow leak, the water in the bowl will turn
brown. In all likelihood, the folks in the utilities department will
suggest this, so it's good to be able to tell them you've already checked this
possibility (As if a slow leak would increase your total water usage by a
factor of ten...!).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Hope this helps!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Kathleen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;">On Sep 30, 2007, at 4:19 PM,
Christine Gray wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font color="navy" face="Book Antiqua" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; color: navy;">Has anyone else’s water bill jumped like mine has?</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font color="navy" face="Book Antiqua" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; color: navy;">My last two bills have been about $90 for 10 cubic feet of water.
(I don’t know how much that is.)</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font color="navy" face="Book Antiqua" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; color: navy;">The bill I received yesterday is for $470 for 116 cubic feet of
water.</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font color="navy" face="Book Antiqua" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; color: navy;">Nothing has changed in my life!</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font color="navy" face="Book Antiqua" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; color: navy;">Is it possible to get another reading of the water meter?</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font color="navy" face="Book Antiqua" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; color: navy;">Has this jump in water use happened, without a reason, to anyone
else?</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font color="navy" face="Book Antiqua" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; color: navy;">Thank you,</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font color="navy" face="Book Antiqua" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; color: navy;">Christine Gray </span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;">_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Chat mailing list<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><a href="mailto:Chat@charlesvillage.info">Chat@charlesvillage.info</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma;">archive: <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/chat@charlesvillage.info/" target="_blank">http://www.mail-archive.com/chat@charlesvillage.info/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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