A slightly deeper view of your water supply system
Staying with the concept of looking for low cost ways to lower your communities taxes a bit, I stated: that the Electric Bill could be the place to begin. Phase 1 was comparing the costs of the electric bill.
Took 15 minutes.
The savings alone could be phenomenal for you.
The really easiest part is simply looking to see if any of your bills are actual electric meter reads or how many was only an estimated bill.
This one served me really well.
It was unbelievable.
92% of the bills were Estimated Bill and had been for years.
The Water Department had installed Locked Fences around most of the Well and Pump Stations back in 1991.
The local Electric Meter Reader just estimated the read and their billing office had even stated that on the Bill itself, sent it to us and the Accounts Payable had just paid it.
If the Operator had ever looked at the bill, they would have seen it right away but I was the new guy there.
Their Electric Bill for the year was ( in 2013) 1.3 million dollars and the Water Department had just continued to accept the bill.
I could ( and did) get excited right here as 92% of 1.3 was this estimated bill being paid.
Here is the catch.
Since most electric meters only go to “9” and then rollover. If this reading falls inside of the “9” turnover you can receive credit for the mistaken bill.
But if you waited to discover after The nines rolled over, then you have absolutely no proof.
We did get some credit but the years of mistakes?
Nope, not a penny.
So to review the two important steps so far to recover your predicted Budget for this year.
#1 Check your actual Electric Bills. See if the meters have been actually read. Correct what you can.
#2 Compare the Electric costs to your monthly pumping costs. Pick the lower cost sites.
This is simple so far. You may have spent longer looking for the bills and the monthly pumping figures that you have doing the review of this bills.
But in consulting at separate systems over different states, I have indeed found this at every location, every time.
I have been paid a 6 figure payment each time so this is valuable to my client and most importantly, me!
You can use this technique for yourself. Just in case you have way more money than you need, of course.
I doubt this can’t be used anywhere. I have used these tips in the State of New York ( a municipality run system) and another time in Cape Cod.
I have learned it in northern New Jersey and then again in southern New Jersey.
I discovered it in western Alabama within 3 weeks and showed them how to save the 1.2 million dollars they had inadvertently spent over the last 10 years.
Finally, in Florida inside of the first month. Took me longer to convince them as they didn’t want to know.
These water systems ranged in size from around 600 residents to over 86,000 population ( a Good sized city).
A few were private Engineering corporations and a few were local municipal town departments.
So it scales great.
And most importantly was always there in every location. A few were fantastic in creating savings, and a very few were scary. Some time in the future I will download pictures of what I found, but not yet…the issues were corrected and are now in the past.
But again, these issues have been common. Hence easy to correct. This you can do. Either using it to lower the tax bill or lowering the year’s planned budget significantly enough you can use the savings to even further improve that water system.
I know this was short. But it really doesn’t take that much time to create this amazing savings at no cost.
Now you know.
You can ignore these common issues, or look into them quietly and gain a good game plan. I recommend this, always. First find the shortcomings, look into it and if it gives you a positive gain, then announce it.
It works.
Always.
If you find anything when you look, let me know, I will help you read the bills, and do the math and point out the findings so you can excel immediately at this.
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Don’t put it off, your future is waiting.
I hope this has served you,
Larry Coslow