{"id":471277,"date":"2026-10-20T05:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471277\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T05:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:34:10","slug":"aqua-texas-says-woman-used-209000-gallons-of-water-in-2-days-then-erased-5319-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471277\/","title":{"rendered":"Aqua Texas says woman used 209,000 gallons of water in 2 days, then erased $5,319 bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Aqua \"Aqua Aqua Texas customer’s $5,319 bill cleared<\/a> <\/p>\n

FOX 26 Reporter Randy Wallace spoke with an Aqua Texas customer who said her $5,000 water bill was cleared after the company said over 200,000 gallons of water was used by the customer in two days.\u00a0<\/p>\n

HOUSTON – Aqua Texas told FOX 26 and Melinda Sperl she somehow used 209,000 gallons of water in just a 2-day period.<\/p>\n

What they’re saying:<\/p>\n

That’s enough water to fill a standard municipal water tower in a small city or fill the interior of 22 large school buses parked side by side.<\/p>\n

“I thought they were crazy. There’s no way. We don’t have a pool. We had nothing for it to be that high,” Melinda said.<\/p>\n

Melinda thought it was due to a water main break behind her house, which would have been Aqua Texas’ responsibility.<\/p>\n

The water company blamed a leak on Melinda’s property, but with that amount of water, a leak would have been impossible not to notice.<\/p>\n

Melinda says she checks her bill every day, and she recently noticed her balance, which was $5,319.21 for months, was zero.<\/p>\n

Obviously, she’s glad she no longer owes the huge amount, but says she doesn’t understand Aqua Texas offered her no explanation.<\/p>\n

Aqua Texas told us, “Out of respect for customer privacy, we are unable to comment further on the specifics of this customer’s account.”<\/p>\n

The Source: FOX 26 Reporter Randy Wallace spoke with Melinda Sperl.<\/p>\n

Houston<\/a>News<\/a>Top Stories<\/a>Consumer<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aqua Texas customer’s $5,319 bill cleared FOX 26 Reporter Randy Wallace spoke with an Aqua Texas customer who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2409,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-471277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-consumer","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471277","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=471277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}