The City of Houston is looking into an ABC13 viewer’s account after they received a water bill for more than $4,000.<\/p>\n
“We cannot afford $4,000,” Robin Turner said. “That bill is outrageous.”<\/p>\n
Turner showed us the bill, which indicates that her home used more than 120,000 gallons of water in June of this year.<\/p>\n
It shows that number was around 20,000 in May and around 10,000 in March and April.<\/p>\n
“We don’t use water like that,” she said of the current bill. “It’s a small two-bedroom house.”<\/p>\n
Turner said City of Houston workers have come to her home, but at this point she’s being told she must pay the entire balance on the bill.<\/p>\n
“They walked the whole perimeter and everything,” she said of city workers. “We just can’t come to the conclusion on why the water bill is steadily going up.”<\/p>\n
This massive bill comes as the City of Houston has announced it will soon resume turning off water for customers with unpaid balances.<\/p>\n
It’s something that hasn’t been done in two years, but officials say they’ve fixed the meter and billing issues that led to the hiatus.<\/p>\n
“It’s very scary,” Turner said. “Everybody needs water.”<\/p>\n
ABC13 has previously reported there are about 15,000 customers in the City of Houston with outstanding balances for water bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Houston is looking into an ABC13 viewer’s account after they received a water bill for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[147646,56,58,57,147647,147648,114791],"class_list":["post-424485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-city-of","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-robin-turner","tag-the-city-of-houston","tag-turner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424485","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=424485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}