{"id":2142,"date":"2025-10-14T06:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/2142\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T06:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:36:08","slug":"southeast-side-couple-gets-900-water-bill-city-says-no-one-can-check-meter-until-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/2142\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast side couple gets $900 water bill, city says no one can check meter until December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/072EA3AA1215B8929CCB5EF4C4270A3A_8.jpg\" alt=\"Houston couple receives $900 water bill\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/video\/1723713\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston couple receives $900 water bill<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\">FOX 26&#8217;s Randy Wallace spoke with one Houston couple who received a $900 water bill and they were told no one can come check on the water meter until December.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; &#8220;I can&#8217;t afford $900. Not for no water,&#8221; said Socorro Watson.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston couple hit with $900 water bill, says there is confusion <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Most people can&#8217;t afford a $900 water bill. The Watson&#8217;s say their water bill averages around $120.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Socorro says they don&#8217;t do laundry at home or wash vehicles at home.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Their water usage shot up drastically in July and August, leaving them with a water bill, at one point, exceeding a thousand dollars, and they don&#8217;t understand why.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Two plumbers have inspected, and Socorro says no leaks were uncovered.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/water-bill.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">She wonders if the city has somehow mixed her water bill up with the church next door, which was only $30 for the month of August.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Socorro is paying $170 a month to keep the water turned on.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">When we asked the city about the huge bill, we were told Public Works was looking into it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: FOX 26 Reporter Randy Wallace spoke with the Watson&#8217;s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston couple receives $900 water bill FOX 26&#8217;s Randy Wallace spoke with one Houston couple who received a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-2142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}