Water is charged by the m2 - (1000liters) the cost depends on your water company but visit their website
So 500 pure per day plus 500 in waste is 1 m2 ( 70 odd pence )
You can fit a meter of your own and show the water company this only goes to producing water and I think you then get a rebate on sewer rates.
Darran
Hi Darran,
I have always been a bit confused with this. I have never looked into it as I'm not on a meter.
Where we live on the coast we have only one sewer where all waste water is channeled to; ie. sewerage and rain water from off the roof. So if a windie is returning the waste water to the drain (as we do) then that is still going to sewerage and needs to be treated.
Guisborough, an inland market town close to where we live has a sewerage processing system and discharges the treated sewerage back into the river that joins the sea at Saltburn beach. When Guisborough has heavy rains, the sewerage system overflows and we can get raw sewerage down the river and onto the beach. So apart from new builds, the old section of town still has a single pipe sewerage system.
I understand the all new builds are automatically fitted with water meters and have 2 separate waste systems, sewerage and rainwater (grey water?) So I would have thought that logically this rebate could only apply if the waste water goes into a grey sewage pipe.
(I tried to redirect r/o waste onto the garden. I thought it was successful until I found that the neighbours garden slightly lower than ours were being flooded out.
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