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It’s actually illegal to drill a well in a municipality that provides water service. You’d have to move to a rural area.
by BooneJS 5y ago
It’s actually illegal to drill a well in a municipality that provides water service. You’d have to move to a rural area.
- ngngngng 5y agoEven if you do move to alternatives to public utilities, many areas will not allow you to disconnect from them and have a required minimum bill. For example, If I got many solar panels and backup batteries to power my house, I would still be required to pay $5 a month to the local electric company and would not be allowed to disconnect from them.
- anticensor 5y ago> If I got many solar panels and backup batteries to power my house, I would still be required to pay $5 a month to the local electric company and would not be allowed to disconnect from them. That may be true for water and gas, but is usually false for electricity.
- splitstud 5y agoThis is nowhere near universally true
- bliteben 5y agoMy neighbor gets city water and has a well for grey water. I live in Washington. Today you learned.
- Biganon 5y agoPeople need to stop acting like the law is the same everywhere. "X is illegal, period" is probably only true for murder and theft, and even then, with a lot of regional variations.