Jefferson County W and S District - M

Welcome to the Jefferson County Water and Sewer District (JCWSD) Consumer Confidence Report (CCR) web page. By scrolling down, you can locate the document* indexed for the area in which you acquire water service from the JCWSD. If you've got any questions regarding your service vicinity, please call the District at 740-283-8577.Service Area A – New Alexandria, State Rt. 151 Areas (furnished via the Brilliant Water District) Service Area – G1 and G2 – County Roads 1, 4, 14, 15, sixteen and 17 (furnished by using the Tiltonsville Water Department) Service Area – Smithfield, Piney Fork, Bradley, Dillonvale Ridge, State Rt. 152 (furnished with the aid of each the Brilliant and Tiltonsville structures) Service place M, PHKE and B1 – Richmond Area, East Springfield Area, Amsterdam, Bergholz, Irondale, Hammondsville, Knoxville, Pottery Addition, Toronto Area, Bloomingdale Area (supplied by way of the Toronto Water System) Service Area O – Overlook Hills inside the Wintersville Area (provided by each the Toronto and Steubenville Water Systems in 2014) Service Area J – Sunshine Park and Jefferson Blvd., Williams Blvd. (furnished by means of the Steubenville Water System) *If you would love to acquire a paper reproduction of the report, please contact the JCWSD at 740-283-8577.

Where is my water meter, and how do I study it? Your meter is placed in the basement of your own home or in cases wherein there's no basement, in an underground meter pit. These pits are dug low sufficient inside the floor that it must save you meters from freezing. Meters placed in a pit can make them occasionally hard to repair inside the iciness months. The water typically comes in from the road aspect of the house. The meter sits at the water pipe that comes in via the floor. The head of the meter is ready 3 inches in diameter and has a big hand and a small pink diamond or triangle. Read the six numbers at the meter show, wherein it says cubic ft, from left to proper. Residents in Winchester are billed for every 100 cubic feet handiest the primary 4 numbers are used for billing. Note: You may see what seems like water at the face of the dial. It is oil that forestalls corrosion and increases the existence of the dial mechanism. It does not input the water deliver and does now not affect the nice of the water added to the consumer. How does the metropolis examine the meter? Most of the water meters in Winchester have a meter pad on the outside of their home. This pad is contacted by using cord to the meter whether or not in a pit or within the basement and permits for transfer of records to be read with the aid of the touch of a hand-held tool, referred to as a meter reader, every sector with the aid of the water department staff. ~ Note: The Winchester Water Department is currently underneath going a chief improve to its metering device to a radio read unit. These new gadgets permit for the hand-held devices to get hold of a radio frequency sign by means of riding by means of your home. The set up of these new gadgets will make the effort but can be a extra green manner of moving facts in addition to saving many hours of reading meters. Radio readers have the capacity to get hold of a frequency from 150 toes away. What is a unit of water? Water utilization is measured by consumption gadgets. One consumption unit is one hundred cubic ft or about 748 gallons. A container 5 ft lengthy via five ft huge and four toes high holds one consumption unit. I even have a better than regular water bill, what do I do? There are several actions that can be taken to deduce why your bill is higher than everyday. First check all the water fixtures in and round your home for leaks and/or right functioning. A dripping water faucet can account for 25 or more gallons per day and steady streams of water contributing masses of gallons per day for your water bill. With our enjoy we've located that lavatories are greater vulnerable to leaks than some other fixture. Open the bathroom tank and look into the overflow and adjust the flow to maintain the tank stage about 1” below the top of the overflow tube. You also can positioned meals coloring, Kool-Aid or any other biodegradable coloring into the toilet tank and look ahead to the water in the bathroom bowl to alternate colours. A coloration trade in the lavatory bowl can suggest that there's a leak within the flapper valve this is placed at the lowest of the bathroom tank. Replacing the internals of the standard lavatory expenses around $15 for do-it-yourselfers and ought to take much less than an hour to accomplish. You also can name your plumber to help you with this restore. Water strains that feed from the house to a garden, barn or other part of the property is constantly a suspect in a excessive invoice. These strains can also have leaks in them that do not seem above floor. When no longer in use we endorse that these strains be shut off on the residence to reduce the risk of leaks and a high water invoice. After you have got checked your own home and repaired the leaks that have been located, you can call the Water Department to test your usage with a brand new meter analyzing and for greater help in locating leaks. Why is my bill estimated? Estimating payments is a practice the Winchester Water Department feels is neither fair to the patron neither is it an correct report of your homes usage. In maximum cases a water invoice is anticipated because the meter pad is inaccessible to water department group of workers via obstructions of snow, fencing, trees and other debris. Reading over 1100 meters may be a timely task, every so often taking as long as two weeks. For protection motives, the water branch personnel is not authorized to put off or move any obstruction stopping them from reaching an correct read. Not.