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1) What do I do if I assume my water bill is simply too excessive? If you think your water invoice is in error, the satisfactory route of movement is to call Utility Billing or visit a customer service consultant on the primary ground of Allen City Hall. They will assess your account records and your character situation. The Utility Billing variety is 214.509.4560. Understanding Your City of Allen Utility Bill 2.Does the City of Allen use “smart meters” and what is the distinction? The City of Allen does not have “clever water meters” on any residential water money owed. We use meters synthetic using Neptune and we've got used those equal types of meters for two decades or greater. Only about 10% of those meters ought to be manually examined by way of the meter readers, who enter usage to an information recording tool through the hand. The other ninety% of the meters have a lead wire from the sign-in on the pinnacle of the meter that connects to a touch-read pad on the pinnacle of the meter cowl. The same meter base that Allen makes use of can be fitted with a smart meter check in to allow far-flung analyzing. We do no longer have these clever meter registers set up on our meters. The smart meter registers transmit a completely low-strength RF sign to accomplish the faraway studying function. Understanding Your City of Allen Utility Bill 3.How does the City read the meters in Allen? For both styles of meters utilized in Allen, a meter services technician is going by way of the home and reads the meter each month. For manually-examine meters, they examine the meter face after they open the meter lid. On contact-study meters, they simply “touch” the pad on the top of the meter lid to get the contemporary meter analyzing. While the contact-examine machine is electronic, it does not emit Radio Frequency (RF) transmissions. Once the meters are read, the statistics are downloaded into the City’s monetary gadget. Understanding Your City of Allen Utility Bill four.Does the City of Allen ever estimate or average consumer intake use? In the beyond fifteen years, the City has not “predicted” meter readings due to horrific climate or for some other cause. A meter services technician goes via each meter, every billing cycle. Due to the reality that we should time table human beings to bodily pass by and take meter readings, we can not take readings on a precise 30-day interval. The only way to take readings at once and obtain an extra even billing length might be to put in “clever meters” which the City has no longer yet completed. Understanding Your City of Allen Utility Bill five.Does the City replace meters on a time table? Or after they fail? The City adjustments out residential water meters with new meters on a ten- to 15-12 months cycle. This is due to the fact meters run gradually as they age; to guarantee the accuracy of billings we have to change them out. When meters age, they generally run slow or prevent walking absolutely. If the City did now not regularly update the meters, we would need to check all residential meters as they age to ensure they have been running within standards. Any continuously failing meters are changed. Understanding Your City of Allen Utility Bill 6.Will the City check my meter if I think it isn't always operating effectively? The City offers meter testing to citizens at their request for a $20 fee. The City has tested residential meters upon request and has any that had been running “fast.” We have discovered old meters that had been jogging “sluggish,” or underreporting water usage. If the meter tests run too speedy or excessive, we'd refund the $20 and adjust the resident’s invoice for this reason for high readings. We do no longer make any adjustment if the meter runs gradual, that's to the consumer’s advantage, however, the meter will get replaced with a brand new one. Understanding Your City of Allen Utility Bill 7.Why does my water bill hold going up? The City of Allen purchases water for its customers from the North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD). NTMWD has accelerated water buy costs yearly in response to rising operational charges, EPA water mandates to enhance dealt with water nice, invasive species infestations, and the need to increase water supply to satisfy the needs of our spiraling North Texas population. The City of Allen periodically conducts water and sewer price studies to decide how our utility prices should be set to maintain the Water and Sewer organization fund, used to buy water, in sound economic situation. Many years ago, a good way to inspire conservation practices, the City factored in a “tiered” price shape that costs growing expenses as intake will increase. Understanding Your City of Allen Utility Bill eight.What is the present-day water price structure? The present-day water price shape is divided into levels and calculated in step with 1,000 gallons utilized in each tier. Residential minimal invoice, five/8-inch meter, consists of the first 1,500 gallons of water $10.29 1,501 to fifteen,000 gallons $three.Forty per 1,000 gallons 15,001 to twenty-five,000 gallons $four.25 according to 1,000 gallons 25,001 to 50,000 gallons $5.32 according to 1,000 gallons 50,001 to seventy five,000 gallons $7.99 in keeping with 1,000 gallons Over 75,000 gallons $eleven.98 in line with 1,000 gallons Water use is charged per tier. For instance – in case you use 20.