Re: How are criminals arrested

On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:58:36 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:

On Mon Jun 23 10:18:25 2025 Jeff Liebermann  wrote:

On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 02:51:20 -0700, John B.
<jbslocomb@fictitious.site> wrote:
 

On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:13:33 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 15:46:45 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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On 6/22/2025 12:00 PM, cyclintom wrote:

My fucking water bill last month was $100 and that was almost entirely from flushing toilets. That, just 15 years ago wouls have been $10.

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Mine arrived yesterday. $26.10 for the month. You need to move out of
that hellhole before your water bills break you!

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My last water bill was $80.50.  I live about 60 miles south of Tom. We
have different water companies.  My water bill has been creeping
upwards since the last few droughts:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_in_California#Dry_years>
My water bill went up even faster after the CZU fire destroyed a large
part of the water distribution and storage system Aug-Sept 2020:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CZU_Lightning_Complex_fires>
Also, only $9.50 of the $80.50 is for water.  The rest if for service.
In other words, if the water district delivered no water, my bill
would still be $71 per month.
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I suspect that Tom's water bill follows the same pattern, where
reducing his water use will have almost no effect on his $100 monthly
bill.

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Dig a well....

 
I live in a forest, in the hills.  Some towns have centralized sewage
disposal plants, but most houses, including mine, use septic tanks and
leach field (or infiltrators).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septic_tank>
 
The problem is you really don't want to be pumping drinking water from
anything near a septic tank.  On my 1/4 acre lot, finding a safe
location for a water well is impossible.  Minimum lot size for a well
and septic system was about 1 acre, but that probably has changed.
 
Also, water wells are registered, inspected and taxed.  I don't know
the details or numbers because I don't know anyone near me that has a
registered water well.
 
"Individual Water Systems - Santa Cruz County"
<https://www.santacruzcountyca.gov/Portals/0/County/FireRecovery/pdfs/RPC/IndividualWaterSystems.pdf>
 
"Sustainable Groundwater Management Act"
<https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/sgma/reporting_and_fees.html>

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I assume that you get eater from Los Gatos.

I assume you mean water, not eater.  No.  San Lorenzo Valley has
multiple water sources.  There are 5 ground water sources:
<https://www.slvwd.com/sites/g/files/vyhlif1176/f/uploads/section_5_text.pdf>
and an assortment of surface water (river, stream, creek) sources.
Water from Loch Lomond Reservoir is reserved for emergencies.  In the
distant past, we would run out of water in late summer.  The SLVWD
would switch to water from the reservoir.  It was easy to tell when
this happened because the water was light green and smelled awful.
Fortunately, that would only last a few days.  That  hasn't been a
problem for 30 or more years.

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