Sounds similar to what I ran into a few years back at my house.
On the other hand, last summer the City came out to our office building to "inspect" the meter they installed the pervious summer. After looking it over, he said it was not working and he replaced it. He said because they had no way to prove how much water we had used, we would get past usage for free.
Sure enough, I looked back through all the previous bills and the reading was always the same. They never tried to back-bill us for anything. So our water bill went from something like $30 a month to $180 a month. (three businesses in our building)
Must be enough mark-up in there to cover it...
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