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Ridgewood Water Customers Socked With High Bills After Meter Overhaul

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Ridgewood Water Customers Socked With High Bills After Meter Overhaul

February 25, 2015 5:43 PM

RIDGEWOOD, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – People in Bergen County say they’re drowning in outrageous water bills.

As CBS2’s Vanessa Murdock reported, Ridgewood Water overhauled its systems, but that was not a good thing for many customers who suddenly got socked with bills running into the thousands of dollars.

Two homeowners, one from Wyckoff and one from Glen Rock, both have the same problem: exorbitant water bills.

“In the thousands,” Scott Hornak, of Glen Rock, said.

“They charged us $2,500,” Wyckoff resident Dominick Marano said.

Hornak called after receiving the heart-stopping bill.

“I said, ‘Is there a leak or something?’ And they said no, we’ve just been doing estimated water bills,” Hornak said.

With new meters being installed, one-time-only back charges are being assessed, Murdock reported.

“It can be estimates for six months or for as many as five or six years,” Frank Moritz said, director of operations for Ridgewood Water.

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/02/25/ridgewood-water-customers-socked-with-high-bills-after-meter-overhaul/

4 thoughts on “Ridgewood Water Customers Socked With High Bills After Meter Overhaul

  1. Geez, I and I thought mine was high. They hit me for $425 for the back water bill (despite the fact that I sent them a reading EVERY single quarter. My quarterly bill was about $100.

  2. Heads should roll for this, but they won’t.

  3. Same old crap in the village the mayor and council should clean house I’ve never seen such incompetent people in my life. I was speaking with an employee that had gone to pick up asphalt for road repairs and was turned away because the bills do not get payed.that and someone walks away with almost a half a million dollars and no one noticed,it’s embarrassing

  4. I reviewed my water bills and just paid the most recent one. Basic the same.

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