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From: John B. <jbslocomb@fictitious.site>
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Subject: Re: How are criminals arrested
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:50:40 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

>On 6/23/2025 8:10 AM, John B. wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 07:55:20 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 6/23/2025 4:51 AM, John B. wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:13:33 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 15:46:45 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 6/22/2025 12:00 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>>>>>>> My fucking water bill last month was $100 and that was almost entirely from flushing toilets. That, just 15 years ago wouls have been $10.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mine arrived yesterday. $26.10 for the month. You need to move out of
>>>>>> that hellhole before your water bills break you!
>>>>>
>>>>> My last water bill was $80.50.  I live about 60 miles south of Tom. We
>>>>> have different water companies.  My water bill has been creeping
>>>>> upwards since the last few droughts:
>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_in_California#Dry_years>
>>>>> My water bill went up even faster after the CZU fire destroyed a large
>>>>> part of the water distribution and storage system Aug-Sept 2020:
>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CZU_Lightning_Complex_fires>
>>>>> Also, only $9.50 of the $80.50 is for water.  The rest if for service.
>>>>> In other words, if the water district delivered no water, my bill
>>>>> would still be $71 per month.
>>>>>
>>>>> I suspect that Tom's water bill follows the same pattern, where
>>>>> reducing his water use will have almost no effect on his $100 monthly
>>>>> bill.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dig a well....
>>>> --
>>>> cheers,
>>>>
>>>> John B.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sounds simple. It's not.  In WI you need a drill permit
>>> first, can't do it yourself, as it requires a licensed well
>>> driller and then there's county water testing, forever.
>>>
>>> As with your 'water' bill, the larger expense is on the
>>> other (sewage) side. In rural areas, that's septic tank
>>> clearance and testing (leach fields no longer permitted).
>>>
>>> https://odorfreeseptic.com/septic-system-regulations/wisconsin-septic-system-regulations/
>> 
>> 
>> I can only sympathies with you people back there .... all those
>> helpful agencies.
>> 
>> Growing up in mid New Hampshire we lived in two houses with wells and
>> septic tanks. Never a problem.
>> 
>> I suppose that the difference was that we knew what we were doing and
>> the U.S. wasn't, in those days intent on controlling every act the
>> citizens make.
>> --
>> cheers,
>> 
>> John B.
>> 
>
>
>For a bit over 100 years, morning at girlfriend's farm began 
>by slinging a bucket on a rope into the spring.  Her father 
>ran a steel pipe from deep in the spring to an electric pump 
>in the farmhouse in 1959. Girlfriend was overjoyed at indoor 
>plumbing (finally).
>
>All was well until about ten years ago when the State 
>inspector showed up and cited her for spring water, which is 
>now banned. She had to have a well drilled ($$) and now has 
>mineral rich bad tasting well water rather than spring water.


Why is spring water banned?
--
cheers,

John B.